Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 126

But still it was a shelter, and from within you could look far over the sea, which dashed wildly against the sea-wall on which the little house was built.

Who acts: roof, you, sea · What happens: be, look, dash, build · To what, where: shelter, sea wall, little house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, you, sea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 shelter	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	6 shelter	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shelter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shelter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shelter	det
6	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 look	cc
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 you	case
10	within	within	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shelter	parataxis
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 look	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dashed	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dashed	nsubj
20	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sea	acl:relcl
21	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	20 dashed	advmod
22	against	against	ADP	_	26 wall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wall	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wall	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sea	punct
26	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dashed	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 built	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 built	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 built	aux:pass
33	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wall	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shelter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	roof	a shelter		still		tree rules
2	look	could	you				over the sea; far property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme
3	dash	past	the sea		the sea wall		wildly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory
4	build	past · passive		the little house	the sea wall			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source

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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