Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 105

They thought that the whole swarm of people whom they had seen in the bright daylight were still moving around them; they were certain they still saw the same forms that had first caught their attention.

Who acts: fishes, whole swarm · What happens: think, see, move, be, catch, attend · To what, where: people, bright daylight, same forms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, whole swarm), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 moving	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swarm	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swarm	amod
6	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moving	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swarm	nmod
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seen	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 people	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 daylight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 daylight	det
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daylight	amod
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moving	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 moving	advmod
19	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moving	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 certain	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 certain	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 certain	cop
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 saw	advmod
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 certain	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forms	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 forms	amod
31	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saw	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 caught	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	aux
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 caught	advmod
35	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 forms	acl:relcl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 attention	nmod:poss
37	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	fishes = fish					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past · perfect	fishes = fish	people	the bright daylight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	move	past · progressive	the whole swarm of people			still	around fishes = fish	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory
4	is	past	fishes = fish				certain property	tree rules
5	see	past	fishes = fish	the same forms		still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
6	catch	past · perfect · passive		the same forms			first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary attention=Theme
7	attend		fishes = fish					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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