Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 84

But however quietly its white glassy surface rested, there was still a motion on the shore, as its waves rose and fell like the breast of a sleeping child.

Who acts: motion, waves, sea · What happens: rest, be, rise, fall, sleep, wave

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 (motion, waves, sea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 rested	cc
2	however	however	ADV	_	3 quietly	advmod
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 rested	advmod
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 surface	nmod:poss
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 surface	amod
6	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 surface	amod
7	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quietly	nsubj
8	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rested	ccomp
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 motion	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 motion	det
14	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 motion	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rose	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 rose	mark
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 waves	nmod:poss
21	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rested	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rose	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 breast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 breast	det
27	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 child	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
30	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 child	amod
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 breast	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rest	participle			quietly property	tree rules
2	be	past	a motion on the shore	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rise	past	sea's waves			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	sea's waves not said here		like the breast of a sleeping child	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	gerund				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wave		sea			nom wave «event transitive»: poss=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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