Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 55

At this moment he distinctly saw a white staring figure under the water--a wave lifted him up, and he came nearer to the figure--he felt a violent shock, and everything became dark around him.

Who acts: Jurgen, wave, everything · What happens: see, lift up, come, feel, become · To what, where: white staring figure, water, Jurgen, figure, violent shock

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 (Jurgen, wave, everything), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
5	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 figure	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 figure	amod
9	staring	staring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 figure	compound
10	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 figure	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 lifted	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wave	det
16	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	nsubj
17	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lifted	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 lifted	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
24	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 figure	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 figure	det
27	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shock	det
32	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shock	amod
33	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 felt	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 became	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 became	cc
36	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	37 became	nsubj
37	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 felt	conj
38	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 became	xcomp
39	around	around	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 dark	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jurgen	a white staring figure	the water	moment	distinctly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
2	lift up	past	a wave	Jurgen				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	come	past	Jurgen		the figure		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to figure=Initial_Location
4	feel	past	Jurgen	a violent shock				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme
5	become	past	everything				dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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