Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 18

It glided over the rolling waves and across the ocean of time, and to him came the voice of Solon; spoken in a strange tongue, yet intelligible to him, he heard the Danish motto: "By law the land is ruled."

Who acts: bed, truth, law · What happens: glide, come, speak, hear, rule · To what, where: rolling waves, voice, truth, strange tongue, Danish motto, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, truth, law), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glided	nsubj
2	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 waves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
5	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	compound
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glided	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ocean	cc
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ocean	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glided	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voice	det
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Solon	case
21	Solon	Solon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 voice	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 glided	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 tongue	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tongue	det
26	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tongue	amod
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spoken	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intelligible	punct
29	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	30 intelligible	cc
30	intelligible	intelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spoken	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 intelligible	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glided	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 motto	det
37	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 motto	amod
38	motto	motto	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 ruled	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 ruled	punct
41	By	by	ADP	_	42 law	case
42	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ruled	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ruled	nsubj:pass
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 ruled	aux:pass
46	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 heard	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glided	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	glide	past	bed			the rolling waves and the ocean of time	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wave=Trajectory
2	come	past	bed not said here	the voice of Solon	truth		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme
3	speak speech: other	participle				a strange tongue	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	truth	the Danish motto			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer motto=Stimulus
5	rule in a quote	present · passive	law	the land			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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