Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 99
The salmon will be leaping in the waterfalls, and dashing against the stone walls, but he will not be able to come in.
Who acts: salmon · What happens: leap, dash, not be, come in · To what, where: waterfalls, stone walls
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 (salmon), 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 salmon | det |
| 2 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaping | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaping | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leaping | aux |
| 5 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 waterfalls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 waterfalls | det |
| 8 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dashing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dashing | cc |
| 11 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 leaping | conj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | compound |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dashing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 able | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 able | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 able | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 able | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 able | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaping | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | future · progressive | the salmon | the waterfalls | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in waterfall=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | dash | gerund | the salmon not said here | the stone walls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not is | future | salmon | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in | to-infinitive | salmon not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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