Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 127

The salt waves sprinkled their white foam over it, but it stood firm, and remained long after he who had given the bricks to build it was dead and buried.

Who acts: salt waves, roof · What happens: sprinkle, stand, remain, give, build, be · To what, where: white foam, roof, sea

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 (salt waves, roof), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waves	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waves	compound
3	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprinkled	nsubj
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 foam	nmod:poss
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 foam	amod
7	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprinkled	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprinkled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprinkled	conj
14	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remained	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 remained	cc
17	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 remained	advmod
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 given	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	nsubj:pass
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 given	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 remained	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bricks	det
25	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 given	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 build	mark
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 build	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 buried	cc
32	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 dead	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprinkled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past	the salt waves	waves's white foam	roof		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foam=Theme over it=Destination
2	stand	past	roof			firm property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remain	past	roof not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past · perfect · passive		sea			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient brick=Theme
5	build	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is	past	roof			dead property	tree rules
7	bury	participle	roof not said here				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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