Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 30
Presently she caught sight of the rock just below them, and by this time the sun was half hidden by the waves.
Who acts: edge, waves · What happens: catch, hide, sight · To what, where: sight, sun, rock
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 (edge, waves), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 caught | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 them | advmod |
| 9 | below | below | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hidden | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hidden | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hidden | aux:pass |
| 19 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 hidden | advmod |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hidden | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | edge | sight of the rock | below swans = swan; presently property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | past · passive | the waves | the sun | time | half property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | sight | the rock | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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