Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 3

We look at the numerous ships, and at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound, rising far above the surface of the waters which mirror the glow of the evening sky.

Who acts: We, sound, evening sky · What happens: look, rise, glow · To what, where: surface

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sound, evening sky), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 ships	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ships	det
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coast	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 coast	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 coast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coast	det
11	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coast	amod
12	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 side	amod
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coast	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sound	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sound	det
19	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rising	punct
21	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 sound	acl
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 rising	advmod
23	above	above	ADP	_	25 surface	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 surface	det
25	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rising	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 waters	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 waters	det
28	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 surface	nmod
29	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	30 mirror	det
30	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waters	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 glow	det
32	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mirror	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 sky	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sky	det
35	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sky	compound
36	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glow	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	We		at the Swedish coast on the opposite side of the sound; at the numerous ships	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ship=Theme
2	rise	gerund	the sound not said here	the surface of the waters and which mirror	far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above surface=Location
3	glow		the evening sky			nom glow «state intransitive»: of=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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