Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 52

Now and then a wave rolled over them, the current lifted them; the water, although deep, was so clear that for a moment he imagined he saw the shoals of mackerel glittering, or Leviathan himself ready to swallow them.

Who acts: wave, Jurgen, shoals · What happens: roll, lift, be, imagine, see, swallow · To what, where: wave, Clara, moment, shoals

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 (wave, Jurgen, shoals), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lifted	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lifted	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lifted	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wave	det
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	nsubj
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wave	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 current	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 current	det
11	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wave	conj
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lifted	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clear	punct
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 clear	mark
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clear	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deep	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clear	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 clear	advmod
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lifted	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 saw	mark
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 imagined	nsubj
29	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 moment	acl:relcl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clear	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shoals	det
33	shoals	shoal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saw	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 glittering	case
35	mackerel	mackerel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 glittering	compound
36	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoals	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ready	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 ready	cc
39	Leviathan	Leviathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 ready	nsubj
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	39 Leviathan	nmod:unmarked
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shoals	amod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 swallow	mark
43	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	xcomp
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 swallow	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle		a wave and the current not said here		over waves = wave	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory
2	lift	past	a wave and the current	Clara	now; then	the water obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	past	a wave and the current not said here			clear property	tree rules
4	imagine	past	Jurgen	a moment not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot moment=Theme
5	see	past	Jurgen	the shoals of mackerel glittering	moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoal=Stimulus
6	swallow	to-infinitive	the shoals of mackerel glittering not said here	Clara			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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