Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 138
When they flew over seas and lakes, the waves rose higher, and the large ships dipped into the water like diving swans.
Who acts: branches, waves, large ships · What happens: fly, rise, dip · To what, where: seas, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, waves, large ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 seas | advmod |
| 5 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lakes | cc |
| 7 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seas | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 rose | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dipped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dipped | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ships | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ships | amod |
| 17 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dipped | nsubj |
| 18 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dipped | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 swans | case |
| 23 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 swans | compound |
| 24 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dipped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | branches = branch | seas and lakes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the waves | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dip | past | the large ships | the water | like diving swans | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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