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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 69

When the sea is rather rough, and the fishermen are coming home in their great boats, it is wonderful to see how they cross the reefs.

Who acts: sea, fishermen, head, seas · What happens: be, come, see, cross · To what, where: great boats, reefs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, fishermen, head, seas), 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

markdetnsubjcopadvmodadvclpunctccdetnsubjauxadvcladvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjcopmarkadvcladvmodnsubjccompdetobjpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETseaNOUNisAUXratherADVroughADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfishermenNOUNareAUXcomingVERBhomeADVinADPtheirPRONgreatADJboatsNOUN,PUNCTitPRONisAUXwonderfulADJtoPARTseeVERBhowADVtheyPRONcrossVERBtheDETreefsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_6 roughmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 seadet
3seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing6 roughnsubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 roughcop
5ratherratherADV_6 roughadvmod
6roughroughADJDegree=Pos21 wonderfuladvcl
7,,PUNCT_12 comingpunct
8andandCCONJ_12 comingcc
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 fishermendet
10fishermenfishermanNOUNNumber=Plur12 comingnsubj
11arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 comingaux
12comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 roughadvcl
13homehomeADV_12 comingadvmod
14ininADP_17 boatscase
15theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 boatsnmod:poss
16greatgreatADJDegree=Pos17 boatsamod
17boatsboatNOUNNumber=Plur12 comingobl
18,,PUNCT_6 roughpunct
19ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 wonderfulnsubj
20isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 wonderfulcop
21wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Posrootroot
22totoPART_23 seemark
23seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 wonderfuladvcl
24howhowADVPronType=Int26 crossadvmod
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 crossnsubj
26crosscrossVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 seeccomp
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 reefsdet
28reefsreefNOUNNumber=Plur26 crossobj
29..PUNCT_21 wonderfulpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentthe searough propertytree rules
2comepresent · progressivethe fishermenfishermen's great boatshome propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location
3ispresentheadwonderful propertytree rules
4seeto-infinitivehead not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5crosspresentseas = seathe reefsvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=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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