Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 73
And there, before the young maiden's eyes, lay the glorious ocean, but not a sail appeared on its surface, not even a boat could be seen.
Who acts: sail · What happens: lay, appear, not see · To what, where: glorious ocean, surface, boat
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 (sail), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 there | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lay | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 there | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ocean | det |
| 13 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ocean | amod |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sail | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sail | det |
| 19 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 surface | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 surface | nmod:poss |
| 23 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seen | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 seen | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 boat | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 boat | det |
| 28 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seen | aux:pass |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 appeared | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the glorious ocean | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Result | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a sail | sail's surface | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location | ||||
| 3 | not see | could · passive | a boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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