Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 32

They sunk so rapidly, that at the moment their feet touched the rock, it shone only like a star, and at last disappeared like the last spark in a piece of burnt paper.

Who acts: swans, that, rock · What happens: sink, touch, shine, disappear · To what, where: rock, star, last

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 (swans, that, rock), 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	2 sunk	nsubj
2	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 rapidly	advmod
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	2 sunk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 touched	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 touched	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 touched	nsubj
12	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sunk	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shone	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shone	nsubj
17	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 star	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 star	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 star	det
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shone	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 disappeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 disappeared	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 disappeared	obl
26	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sunk	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 spark	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spark	det
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spark	amod
30	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 disappeared	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 piece	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 piece	det
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spark	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 paper	case
35	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paper	amod
36	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	swans = swan				rapidly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	touch	past	that	the rock		moment		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme
3	shine	past	rock	a star				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme
4	disappear	participle	swans = swan not said here		last		like the last spark in a piece of burnt paper	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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