Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 23
The weather seemed inclined to be stormy, and Eliza watched the sinking sun with great anxiety, for the little rock in the ocean was not yet in sight.
Who acts: weather, Eliza · What happens: seem, be, watch, not be · To what, where: sinking sun, sight
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 (weather, Eliza), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weather | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stormy | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stormy | cop |
| 7 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inclined | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watched | cc |
| 10 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 13 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sun | compound |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 anxiety | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 anxiety | amod |
| 17 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rock | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rock | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rock | amod |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ocean | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ocean | det |
| 25 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rock | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 yet | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 yet | advmod |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 rock | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 sight | case |
| 30 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yet | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the weather | inclined property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | stormy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | Eliza | the sinking sun | with great anxiety | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | past | sight | yet property | tree rules |
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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