Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 83
The water pressed against the strong glass walls above and on every side.
What happens: press · To what, where: water
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: 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 | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 water | acl |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walls | amod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walls | compound |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pressed | obl |
| 9 | above | above | ADV | _ | 8 walls | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 side | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 above | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | the water not said here | against the strong glass walls | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=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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