Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 75
She noticed how the countless pebbles on the sea-shore had been smoothed and rounded by the action of the water.
Who acts: growth, water · What happens: notice, smooth, round, act · To what, where: countless pebbles, sea shore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (growth, water), 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 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 smoothed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pebbles | det |
| 5 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pebbles | amod |
| 6 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 smoothed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shore | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smoothed | obl |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 smoothed | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 smoothed | aux:pass |
| 14 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 noticed | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rounded | cc |
| 16 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 smoothed | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 action | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 action | det |
| 19 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rounded | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 action | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | growth | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | smooth | past · perfect · passive | the countless pebbles | the sea shore | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | round | participle | by the action of the water | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | act | the water | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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