Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 87
Merrily rippled the clear brooks and rivulets between the green, velvety rushes, and over the many-colored pebbles beneath.
Who acts: Merrily · What happens: ripple · To what, where: clear brooks
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 (Merrily), 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 | Merrily | Merrily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rippled | nsubj |
| 2 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brooks | det |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brooks | amod |
| 5 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rippled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rivulets | cc |
| 7 | rivulets | rivulet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brooks | conj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 rushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rushes | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rushes | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 green | punct |
| 12 | velvety | velvety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rushes | amod |
| 13 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rippled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pebbles | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pebbles | cc |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 pebbles | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pebbles | det |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 colored | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 many | punct |
| 20 | colored | colored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pebbles | amod |
| 21 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rippled | parataxis |
| 22 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 21 pebbles | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rippled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripple | past | Merrily | the clear brooks and rivulets | between the green velvety rushes | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location brook=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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