Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 74

He betook himself thither, strode through the open courtyard where the waters ran splashing from the dolphin's jaws into the marble basins, where the snowy lilies and the fresh roses bloomed in abundance.

Who acts: Providence, waters, snowy lilies · What happens: betake, stride, run, splash, bloom · To what, where: Providence, open courtyard, jaws, abundance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Providence, waters, snowy lilies), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 betook	nsubj
2	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 betook	obj
4	thither	thither	ADV	_	2 betook	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strode	punct
6	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 betook	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 courtyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courtyard	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 courtyard	amod
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strode	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 ran	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waters	det
13	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 courtyard	acl:relcl
15	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ran	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 jaws	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dolphin	det
18	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jaws	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 dolphin	case
20	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 splashing	obl
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 basins	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 basins	det
23	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 basins	amod
24	basins	basin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 splashing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bloomed	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 bloomed	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lilies	det
28	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lilies	amod
29	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bloomed	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 roses	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roses	det
32	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 roses	amod
33	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lilies	conj
34	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 basins	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 abundance	case
36	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bloomed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	betake	past	Providence	Providence		thither property	tree rules
2	stride	past	Providence not said here		the open courtyard		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Trajectory
3	run	past	the waters				tree rules
4	splash	gerund	the waters not said here		the dolphin's jaws	into the marble basins	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basin=Destination
5	bloom	participle	the snowy lilies and the fresh roses		abundance		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abundance=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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