Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 36

Clara sat on deck, and saw the sand-hills gradually appearing in the distance; the church and lighthouse looked like a heron and a swan rising from the blue waters.

Who acts: Clara, church, swan · What happens: sit, see, appear, look, rise · To what, where: deck, sand hills, blue waters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clara, church, swan), 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	Clara	Clara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 deck	case
4	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hills	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sand	punct
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
12	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	13 appearing	advmod
13	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 distance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 distance	det
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appearing	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 church	det
19	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lighthouse	cc
21	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 church	conj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 heron	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 heron	det
25	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swan	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 swan	det
28	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heron	conj
29	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 swan	acl
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 waters	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 waters	det
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 waters	amod
33	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rising	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Clara		deck		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location
2	see	past	Clara not said here	the sand hills			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus
3	appear	gerund	Clara not said here			in the distance; gradually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location
4	look	past	the church and lighthouse			like a heron and a swan	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	rise	gerund	a swan not said here		the blue waters		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location

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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