Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 39
The sea was still rough, and from their high position in the air, the white foam on the dark green waves looked like millions of swans swimming on the water.
Who acts: sea, white foam, swans · What happens: be, look, swim · To what, where: water
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, white foam, swans), 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 | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 rough | advmod |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 position | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 position | nmod:poss |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 position | amod |
| 11 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 position | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 position | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foam | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 foam | amod |
| 18 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 waves | amod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 waves | amod |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 foam | nmod |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 millions | case |
| 26 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 swans | case |
| 28 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 millions | nmod |
| 29 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 swans | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swimming | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | still | rough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | the white foam on the dark green waves | like millions of swans; from swans's high position in the air | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from position=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | swans not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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