Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 95

Only a practised eye could discern the vessel out in the offing; she was a fine brig, and the waves now lifted her over the reef, three or four cables' length out of the usual channel.

Who acts: practised eye, ocean, waves · What happens: practise, discern out, be, lift · To what, where: vessel, offing, fine brig, ocean, reef

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 (practised eye, ocean, waves), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 eye	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 eye	det
3	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eye	amod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discern	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 discern	aux
6	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discern	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 discern	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 offing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 offing	det
12	offing	offing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discern	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 brig	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brig	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 brig	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brig	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brig	amod
18	brig	brig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discern	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lifted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lifted	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lifted	nsubj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lifted	advmod
24	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 discern	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lifted	obj
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 reef	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 reef	det
28	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lifted	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 three	punct
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 cables	nummod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 four	cc
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 three	conj
33	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 length	nmod:poss
34	'	's	PART	_	33 cables	case
35	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lifted	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	40 channel	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 channel	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 channel	det
39	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 channel	amod
40	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lifted	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 discern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	participle						tree rules
2	discern out	could	a practised eye	the vessel	the offing			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus
3	is a	past	ocean	a fine brig				tree rules
4	lift	past	the waves	ocean	the reef	now	out the usual channel	tree rules

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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