Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 33
The ocean itself was a great lesson-book, and it unfolded a new leaf each day of calm or storm--the crested wave or the smooth surface.
Who acts: ocean · What happens: be, unfold, crest · To what, where: great lesson book, new leaf
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 (ocean), 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 ocean | det |
| 2 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 ocean | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 book | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 book | amod |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 lesson | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unfolded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unfolded | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unfolded | nsubj |
| 13 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 book | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 leaf | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaf | amod |
| 16 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unfolded | obj |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unfolded | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 storm | case |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 storm | amod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 storm | cc |
| 22 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 wave | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wave | det |
| 25 | crested | crest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 wave | amod |
| 26 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 storm | appos |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 surface | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 surface | det |
| 29 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 surface | amod |
| 30 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wave | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ocean ocean | a great lesson book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unfold | past | ocean | a new leaf | day | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 3 | crest | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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