Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 196
These presents flew like pebbles across the sea-water.
Who acts: presents · What happens: fly · To what, where: sea water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 presents | det |
| 2 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 pebbles | case |
| 5 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | this presents | the sea water | like pebbles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across 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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