Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 50
She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing in a lake with golden sands.
Who acts: fragrance, water, all · What happens: hear, ripple, flow · To what, where: water, number, lake
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fragrance, water, all), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | rippling | ripple | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 water | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rippling | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 springs | case |
| 9 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flowing | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 flowing | nsubj |
| 12 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 heard | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flowing | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sands | case |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sands | amod |
| 18 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flowing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | fragrance | water | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ripple | gerund | water not said here | a number of springs | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | all | a lake | with golden sands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=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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