Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 95
They came from every side, always increasing like a rising, rolling sea.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: come, increase, roll · To what, where: side, sea
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 (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 increasing | punct |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 increasing | advmod |
| 8 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 rising | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rising | det |
| 11 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 increasing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolling | punct |
| 13 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 increasing | advcl |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolling | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | eyes = eye | every side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | increase | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | like a rising; always property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Agent |
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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