Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 19
They were now so high, that a large ship beneath them looked like a white sea-gull skimming the waves.
Who acts: wings, large ship, white sea gull · What happens: be, look, skim · To what, where: waves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, large ship, white sea gull), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 high | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 high | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nmod |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 gull | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gull | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gull | amod |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gull | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 20 | skimming | skim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 gull | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waves | det |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 skimming | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wings = wing | now | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | a large ship beneath wings | like a white sea gull | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | skim | gerund | a white sea gull not said here | the waves | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wave=Source |
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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