Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 96

If the sea is rough, the foam dashes over us, yet we thank God even for this rock; we have passed whole nights upon it, or we should never have reached our beloved fatherland, for our flight across the sea occupies two of the longest days in the year.

Who acts: sea, foam, we, flight · What happens: be, dash, thank, pass, not reach, occupy · To what, where: God, sea, beloved fatherland, two

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 (sea, foam, we, flight), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 rough	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rough	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rough	cop
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dashes	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rough	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foam	det
8	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dashes	nsubj
9	dashes	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 dashes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	15 thank	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 thank	nsubj
15	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dashes	parataxis
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obj
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 rock	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 rock	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 rock	det
20	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 passed	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	aux
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 occupies	advcl
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nights	amod
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 passed	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 passed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 reached	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 reached	cc
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 reached	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reached	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 reached	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 reached	aux
35	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 passed	advcl
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fatherland	nmod:poss
37	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fatherland	amod
38	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reached	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flight	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 flight	case
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 flight	nmod:poss
42	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 occupies	nsubj
43	across	across	ADP	_	45 sea	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sea	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flight	nmod
46	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dashes	conj
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 occupies	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 days	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 days	det
50	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 days	amod
51	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 two	nmod
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 year	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 year	det
54	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 occupies	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dashes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the sea					rough property	tree rules
2	dash	present	the foam					over us	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over we=Trajectory
3	thank speech: thank	present	we		God			for this rock	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for rock=Attribute
4	pass	present · perfect	we			sea	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
5	not reach	should · perfect	we	our beloved fatherland					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fatherland=Theme
6	occupy	present	our flight across the sea	two of the longest days			year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus two=Experiencer

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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