Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 62
He told of the salmon that leaps in the rushing waters, while the water-god plays on his golden harp.
Who acts: Father, salmon, water god · What happens: tell, leap, rush, play · To what, where: rushing waters, golden harp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, salmon, water god), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 salmon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 salmon | det |
| 5 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 leaps | nsubj |
| 7 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 salmon | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 10 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 waters | amod |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaps | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plays | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 plays | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plays | nsubj |
| 18 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 harp | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 harp | nmod:poss |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 harp | amod |
| 22 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plays | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Father | of the salmon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leap | present | the salmon | the rushing waters | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | play | present | the water god | Father's golden harp | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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