Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 35
The sea dashed against the rock, and covered them with spray.
Who acts: sea · What happens: dash, cover · To what, where: rock, brothers
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 (sea), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | nsubj |
| 3 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 covered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 covered | cc |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dashed | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 covered | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spray | case |
| 12 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | the sea | the rock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | the sea not said here | brothers = brother | with spray | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with spray=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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