Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 60

The fish swam to and fro, making the most wonderful movements, but at last he became quite still.

Who acts: fish · What happens: swim, fro, make, become · To what, where: wonderful movements, last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 swam	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fro	cc
6	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swam	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 making	punct
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fro	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 movements	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 wonderful	advmod
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 movements	amod
12	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 still	advmod
20	still	still	ADV	_	18 became	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swim	past	the fish				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	the fish not said here				tree rules
3	make	gerund	the fish not said here	the wonderful movements			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product
4	become	past	fish		last	still	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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