Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 53

Now the clouds cast a shadow over the water, then again came the playing sunbeams; flocks of loudly screaming birds passed over him, and the plump and lazy wild ducks which allow themselves to be drifted by the waves rose up terrified at the sight of the swimmer.

Who acts: clouds, flocks, lazy wild ducks, waves, plump · What happens: cast, come, scream, pass, allow, drift · To what, where: shadow, water, playing sunbeams, plump, sight, swimmer

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 (clouds, flocks, lazy wild ducks, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cast	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cast	nsubj
4	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 came	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sunbeams	det
15	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sunbeams	compound
16	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
18	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 passed	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 birds	case
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	21 screaming	advmod
21	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 birds	amod
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flocks	nmod
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	parataxis
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rose	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 rose	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 plump	det
29	plump	plump	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rose	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ducks	cc
31	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ducks	amod
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ducks	amod
33	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plump	conj
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 allow	nsubj
35	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 ducks	acl:relcl
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 allow	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	39 drifted	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 drifted	aux:pass
39	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 allow	xcomp
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 waves	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 waves	det
42	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drifted	obl:agent
43	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passed	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 rose	compound:prt
45	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rose	xcomp
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 sight	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sight	det
48	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rose	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 swimmer	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 swimmer	det
51	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sight	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	the clouds	a shadow	the water	now		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over water=Destination
2	come	past	the clouds not said here	the playing sunbeams		then; again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sunbeam=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	past	flocks of screaming birds				over Jurgen	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location
5	allow	present	lazy wild ducks	plump				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer themselves=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	drift not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the waves					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rise up	past	the plump and lazy wild ducks		the sight of the swimmer		terrified property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sight=Location
8	sight			the swimmer				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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