Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 58
He sank down stunned with the blow, but the next wave lifted him and the young girl up again.
Who acts: next wave · What happens: stun, lift · To what, where: Jurgen
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 (next wave), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stunned | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stunned | aux:pass |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 stunned | advmod |
| 4 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 blow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stunned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wave | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wave | amod |
| 12 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | nsubj |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stunned | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lifted | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 girl | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 lifted | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stunned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | past · passive | Jurgen | with the blow; down property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | the next wave | Jurgen | again | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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