Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 93
The waters foamed in the depths below him.
Who acts: waters · What happens: foam · To what, where: depths
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 (waters), 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 waters | det |
| 2 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foamed | nsubj |
| 3 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 depths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 depths | det |
| 6 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foamed | obl |
| 7 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 depths | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 foamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | past | the waters | the depths below Knud | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location |
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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