Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 56

On the sand reef lay the wreck of a ship, which was covered with water at high tide; the white figure head rested against the anchor, the sharp iron edge of which rose just above the surface.

Who acts: white figure head, sharp iron edge · What happens: lie, cover, rest, rise, wreck · To what, where: wreck, sand reef, ship, high tide, anchor, surface

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 (white figure head, sharp iron edge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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