Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 101

The young brown reeds on the moor waved to and fro in feathery billows; the forest boughs were hidden in a watery mist, and still light and darkness followed each other, still came the silence after the roar, while the corn and the blades of grass lay beaten down and swamped, so that it seemed impossible they could ever raise themselves again.

Who acts: young brown reeds, darkness, corn, it, boughs · What happens: wave, fro, hide, follow, come, lay · To what, where: feathery billows, forest boughs, watery mist, each, silence, boughs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young brown reeds, darkness, corn, it), 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	4 reeds	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reeds	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reeds	amod
4	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waved	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 moor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moor	det
7	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reeds	nmod
8	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 waved	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fro	cc
11	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waved	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 billows	case
13	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 billows	amod
14	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fro	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hidden	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boughs	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boughs	compound
18	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hidden	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hidden	aux:pass
20	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 waved	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 mist	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mist	det
23	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mist	amod
24	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hidden	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 light	cc
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 light	advmod
28	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hidden	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 followed	cc
30	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 followed	nsubj
31	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 light	conj
32	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	31 followed	obj
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 each	fixed
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 came	advmod
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 light	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 silence	det
38	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obj
39	after	after	ADP	_	41 roar	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 roar	det
41	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 silence	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lay	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	51 lay	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 corn	det
45	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lay	nsubj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 blades	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 blades	det
48	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 corn	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 grass	case
50	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 blades	nmod
51	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
52	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 lay	xcomp
53	down	down	ADP	_	52 beaten	compound:prt
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 swamped	cc
55	swamped	swamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 beaten	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 seemed	punct
57	so	so	ADV	_	60 seemed	advmod
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 seemed	mark
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 seemed	nsubj
60	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waved	parataxis
61	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 seemed	xcomp
62	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 raise	nsubj
63	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 raise	aux
64	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	65 raise	advmod
65	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 seemed	ccomp
66	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	65 raise	obj
67	again	again	ADV	_	65 raise	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	the young brown reeds on the moor					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fro	infinitive	the young brown reeds on the moor not said here		feathery billows			tree rules
3	hide	past · passive		the forest boughs	a watery mist			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in mist=Location
4	follow	past	darkness	each				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
5	come	past		the silence		after the roar; still		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location silence=Theme
6	lay	present	the corn and the blades of grass					tree rules
7	beat down	participle	the corn and the blades of grass not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	swamp	past	the corn and the blades of grass not said here					tree rules
9	seem	past	it				impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
10	raise	could	boughs = bough	boughs = bough		ever; again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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