Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 81

Lonely as it was on the sea-shore, she did not observe it, for the ever-moving sea showed more changes in a few hours than the most varying lake could produce during a whole year.

Who acts: water, heart, moving sea, more changes · What happens: be, not observe, move, show, vary, produce · To what, where: sea shore, water · 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 (water, heart, moving sea, more changes), 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	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 shore	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shore	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shore	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shore	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sea	punct
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lonely	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 observe	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 observe	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 observe	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 observe	advmod
14	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lonely	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 observe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 showed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 moving	advmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ever	punct
21	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sea	amod
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 observe	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 changes	amod
25	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 produce	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 hours	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hours	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hours	amod
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 changes	nmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	34 lake	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lake	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 varying	advmod
33	varying	vary	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 lake	amod
34	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hours	nmod
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 produce	aux
36	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 showed	ccomp
37	during	during	ADP	_	40 year	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 year	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 year	amod
40	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 produce	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	water		the sea shore		tree rules
2	not observe	past · do-support	heart	water			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	move	gerund				ever	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	show	past	the moving sea				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	vary	gerund					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	produce	could	more changes in a few hours than the varying lake			year	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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