Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 90

There, where the Rhine rolls onward like a great billow, and dissolves itself into snowflakes, where glistening clouds are ever changing as if here was the place of their creation, while the rainbow flutters about them like a many-colored ribbon, there did Knud think of the water-mill at Kjoge, with its rushing, foaming waters.

Who acts: Rhine, glistening clouds, Knud, clouds · What happens: roll, dissolve, glisten, change, be, color · To what, where: Rhine, snowflakes, waters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhine, glistening clouds, Knud, clouds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 rolls	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rolls	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 rolls	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rhine	det
5	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rolls	nsubj
6	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	onward	onward	ADV	_	6 rolls	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 billow	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 billow	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 billow	amod
11	billow	billow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolls	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dissolves	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dissolves	cc
14	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rolls	conj
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 dissolves	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 snowflakes	case
17	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dissolves	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changing	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 changing	advmod
20	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 clouds	amod
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 changing	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 changing	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 changing	advmod
24	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 snowflakes	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	30 place	case
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 here	mark
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 place	advcl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 place	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changing	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 creation	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 creation	nmod:poss
33	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 think	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	49 did	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 flutters	det
37	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flutters	compound
38	flutters	flutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 did	nsubj
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 flutters	nmod
41	like	like	ADP	_	46 ribbon	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 ribbon	det
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 colored	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 many	punct
45	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 ribbon	amod
46	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flutters	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 flutters	punct
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 did	expl
49	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 think	aux
50	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 think	nsubj
51	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rolls	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	56 mill	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 mill	det
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mill	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 water	punct
56	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 think	obl
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 Kjoge	case
58	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 mill	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 rushing	punct
60	with	with	SCONJ	_	62 rushing	mark
61	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 rushing	nsubj
62	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 think	parataxis
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 foaming	punct
64	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 rushing	conj
65	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 foaming	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	the Rhine		there		like a great billow; onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dissolve	present	the Rhine not said here	Rhine			into snowflakes result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into snowflake=Result
3	glisten	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	change	present · progressive	glistening clouds			ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past					as the place; of clouds's creation	tree rules
6	color	participle						vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past · do-support	Knud				of the water mill at Kjoge	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	rush	gerund	Rhine					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	foam	gerund	Rhine not said here	waters				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
10	create		clouds = cloud					nom creation «act transitive»: poss=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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