Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 77

The blue smoke from the guns rose like clouds over the dark trees, and as it floated away across the water, a number of sporting dogs bounded in among the rushes, which bent beneath them wherever they went.

Who acts: blue smoke, smoke, rushes · What happens: rise, float away, sport, bound, bend, go · To what, where: dark trees, water, sporting dogs, rushes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue smoke, smoke, rushes), 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	3 smoke	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smoke	amod
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 guns	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guns	det
6	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smoke	nmod
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rose	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rose	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 floated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 floated	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 floated	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 floated	nsubj
18	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 floated	advmod
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 number	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 number	det
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 dogs	case
27	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 dogs	amod
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
29	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 dogs	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 rushes	case
31	among	among	ADP	_	33 rushes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rushes	det
33	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bounded	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bent	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 bent	nsubj
36	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rushes	acl:relcl
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bent	obl
39	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	41 went	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bent	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the blue smoke from the guns		the dark trees	like clouds	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over tree=Location
2	float away	past	smoke		the water and a number of sporting dogs	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across water=Trajectory
3	sport	gerund					tree rules
4	bound	participle		sporting dogs not said here	the rushes		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rush=Trajectory
5	bend	past	the rushes			beneath rushes = rush	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath they=Location
6	go	past	rushes = rush			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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