Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 86
The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide.
Who acts: waves, wind · What happens: rise, crest, cut off, scatter · To what, where: wind, crests, foam
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 (waves, wind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 waves | det |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crested | punct |
| 6 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rose | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 foam | case |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 foam | amod |
| 9 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wind | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wind | acl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 crests | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crests | nmod:poss |
| 17 | crests | crest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scattering | punct |
| 19 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foam | det |
| 21 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scattering | obj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 scattering | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wide | cc |
| 24 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 far | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the waves | the wind | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | crest | participle | the waves not said here | with white foam | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | the wind not said here | waves's crests | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector crest=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | scatter | gerund | the waves not said here | the foam | far property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foam=Theme |
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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