Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 38

Then the lake lifted her up, and wafted her across to the opposite shore as if she were on a swing, where stood a wonderful building many miles in length.

Who acts: lake, mother · What happens: lift up, waft, be, stand · To what, where: mother, swing, wonderful building, length

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, mother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lifted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wafted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wafted	cc
9	wafted	waft	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wafted	obj
11	across	across	ADV	_	9 wafted	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shore	amod
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wafted	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 swing	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 swing	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swing	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 swing	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 swing	det
22	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wafted	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 stood	advmod
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swing	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 building	det
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 building	amod
28	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obj
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 miles	amod
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stood	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 length	case
32	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	the lake	mother		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	waft	past	the lake not said here	mother			to the opposite shore; across property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	mother		a swing			tree rules
4	stand	past		a wonderful building	length			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent building=Theme mile=Destination

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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