Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 70

I saw the wild buffalo swimming in the river, but the strong tide carried him away amidst a flock of wild ducks, which flew into the air as the waters dashed onwards, leaving the buffalo to be hurled over the waterfall.

Who acts: I, wild buffalo, strong tide, wild ducks, waters · What happens: see, swim, carry away, fly, dash, leave · To what, where: wild buffalo, river, water, air, buffalo, waterfall

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 (I, wild buffalo, strong tide, wild ducks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buffalo	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 buffalo	amod
5	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 buffalo	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tide	det
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tide	amod
14	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
18	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	20 flock	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 flock	det
20	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ducks	case
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ducks	amod
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flock	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ducks	acl:relcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flew	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 dashed	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 waters	det
32	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dashed	nsubj
33	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flew	conj
34	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	33 dashed	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leaving	punct
36	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 dashed	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 buffalo	det
38	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leaving	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 hurled	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 hurled	aux:pass
41	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 buffalo	acl
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 waterfall	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 waterfall	det
44	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hurled	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	the wild buffalo			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus
2	swim	gerund	the wild buffalo not said here		the river		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory
3	carry away	past	the strong tide	water		amidst a flock of wild ducks; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	fly	past	wild ducks			into the air result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
5	dash	past	the waters			onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	the waters not said here	the buffalo			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
7	hurl	to-infinitive · passive	the waters not said here	the buffalo not said here	the waterfall		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: over waterfall=Destination

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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