Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 68
"I looked into the deep river, and saw it rushing down from the rocks.
Who acts: mother, river · What happens: look, see, rush down · To what, where: river, rocks
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 (mother, river), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 river | amod |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 rushing | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rushing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past | the mother = mother | into the deep river | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into river=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the mother = mother not said here | river | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rush down in a quote | gerund | river not said here | the rocks | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory |
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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