Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 101

Two people were seen to embrace and plunge together into the sea, and the next moment one of the largest waves that rolled towards the sand-hills threw a body on the beach.

Who acts: Two people, largest waves, next moment · What happens: see, embrace, plunge, roll, throw · To what, where: Two people, sea, sand hills, body, beach

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two people, largest waves, next moment), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux:pass
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 embrace	mark
6	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plunge	cc
8	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 embrace	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 plunge	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plunge	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moment	amod
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	nsubj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 moment	flat
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 waves	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
21	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 waves	amod
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 rolled	nsubj
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waves	acl:relcl
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 hills	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hills	det
27	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hills	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sand	punct
29	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rolled	obl
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 body	det
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 beach	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beach	det
35	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		Two people			tree rules
2	embrace	to-infinitive	Two people not said here				vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	plunge	infinitive	Two people not said here		the sea	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location
4	roll	past	the largest waves		the sand hills		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hill=Destination
5	throw	past	the next moment	a body	the beach		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme on beach=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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