Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 83

They had soon taken off their Sunday clothes and come out again, hurrying over the dunes which stood there like great waves of sand suddenly arrested in their course, while the sandweeds and dune grass with its bluish stalks spread a changing colour over them.

Who acts: men, dunes, sandweeds · What happens: take off, come out, hurry, stand, arrest, spread · To what, where: Sunday clothes, dunes, great waves, course, changing colour, sand

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 (men, dunes, sandweeds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 taken	advmod
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 taken	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 clothes	nmod:poss
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 clothes	compound
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 taken	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hurrying	punct
14	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 come	advcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 dunes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dunes	det
17	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hurrying	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dunes	acl:relcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stood	advmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 waves	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 waves	amod
23	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sand	case
25	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waves	nmod
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 arrested	advmod
27	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 waves	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 course	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 course	nmod:poss
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arrested	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spread	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 spread	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sandweeds	det
34	sandweeds	sandweed	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 spread	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grass	cc
36	dune	dune	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grass	compound
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sandweeds	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 stalks	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 stalks	nmod:poss
40	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stalks	amod
41	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sandweeds	nmod
42	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 colour	det
44	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 colour	amod
45	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spread	obj
46	over	over	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 spread	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past · perfect	men = man	men's Sunday clothes			soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	come out	infinitive	men = man not said here			again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	hurry	gerund	men = man not said here		the dunes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over dune=Trajectory
4	stand	past	the dunes		there		like great waves of sand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	arrest	participle		great waves of sand not said here	men's course		suddenly property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spread	present	the sandweeds with sand's bluish stalks and dune grass	a changing colour			over men = man	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme over they=Destination
7	change	gerund						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	wave			sand				nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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