Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 23

Even the bleached fishes' skeletons, the water plants dried by the wind, and seaweed, white and shining long linen-like bands waving between the stones--all these seemed made to give pleasure and occupation for the boy's thoughts, and he had an intelligent mind; many great talents lay dormant in him.

Who acts: skeletons, long like bands, these, boy · What happens: bleach, dry, shine, wave, seem, make · To what, where: water plants, long like bands, stones, pleasure, intelligent mind

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skeletons, long like bands, these, boy), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	6 skeletons	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishes	det
3	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fishes	amod
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skeletons	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 fishes	case
6	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 lay	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plants	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plants	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plants	compound
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skeletons	appos
11	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plants	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 wind	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seaweed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seaweed	cc
17	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skeletons	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 white	punct
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seaweed	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shining	cc
21	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 white	conj
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bands	amod
23	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 linen	punct
25	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bands	amod
26	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shining	obj
27	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bands	acl
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 stones	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stones	det
30	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 waving	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 seemed	det:predet
33	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 seemed	nsubj
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skeletons	parataxis
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 seemed	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 give	mark
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 made	xcomp
38	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 occupation	cc
40	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pleasure	conj
41	for	for	ADP	_	45 thoughts	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 boy	det
43	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 thoughts	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 boy	case
45	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pleasure	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 had	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 had	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seemed	conj
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 mind	det
51	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 mind	amod
52	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 lay	punct
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 talents	amod
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 talents	amod
56	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 lay	nsubj
57	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
58	dormant	dormant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 lay	xcomp
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 him	case
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dormant	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bleach	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dry	participle		the water plants not said here		by the wind	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shine	gerund	the bleached fishes's skeletons and seaweed not said here	long like bands			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent band=Theme
4	wave	gerund	long like bands not said here		the stones		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stone=Location
5	seem	past	these				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	make	participle	these not said here				tree rules
7	give	to-infinitive	these not said here	pleasure and occupation		for the boy's thoughts	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme for thought=Asset
8	have	past	boy	a intelligent mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
9	lay	present	the bleached fishes's skeletons and seaweed			dormant property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	think		the boy				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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