Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 108

Artificial grottoes surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water, and gave a glimpse into the empire of the fishes; the visitor seemed to wander at the bottom of the sea, among fishes and polypi.

Who acts: Artificial grottoes, visitor · What happens: surround, give, seem, wander · To what, where: glimpse, empire, bottom

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Artificial grottoes, visitor), 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	Artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grottoes	amod
2	grottoes	grotto	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	nsubj
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bodies	amod
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grottoes	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fresh	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bodies	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fresh	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 glimpse	det
14	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 empire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 empire	det
17	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fishes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fishes	det
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 empire	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 visitor	det
23	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wander	mark
26	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 bottom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bottom	det
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wander	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bottom	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fishes	punct
34	among	among	ADP	_	35 fishes	case
35	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seemed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 polypi	cc
37	polypi	polypi	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fishes	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surround	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	Artificial grottoes and surrounded bodies of fresh or salt water	a glimpse	the empire of the fishes		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
3	seem	past	the visitor			among fishes and polypi	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	wander	to-infinitive	the visitor not said here		the bottom of the sea		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=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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