Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 44
With what a look she gazed up into his face, as with a prayer to God for help he breasted the waves, which rushed over the sinking ship!
Who acts: bride, Jurgen, waves · What happens: gaze up, breast, rush · To what, where: waves, sinking ship
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 (bride, Jurgen, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 look | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 look | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 look | det |
| 4 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gazed | nsubj |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 gazed | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayer | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 prayer | case |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 prayer | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prayer | det |
| 15 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 prayer | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prayer | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 breasted | nsubj |
| 21 | breasted | breast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 breasted | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rushed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rushed | nsubj |
| 26 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 waves | acl:relcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 ship | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ship | det |
| 29 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ship | compound |
| 30 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rushed | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze up | past | bride | with what look; as a prayer to God for help; into Jurgen's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | breast | past | Jurgen | the waves | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | the waves | the sinking ship | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ship=Trajectory |
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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