Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 195
But the people had reached the sea-wall, where the sparks were flying round.
Who acts: people, sparks · What happens: reach, fly · To what, where: sea wall
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 (people, sparks), 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 | _ | 5 reached | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flying | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 flying | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sparks | det |
| 13 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flying | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flying | aux |
| 15 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wall | acl |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 flying | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | the people | the sea wall | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wall=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past · progressive | the sparks | round property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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