Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 77
The white aquatic birds skimmed the surface of the water in their flight, and all was calm and still as amid the black rocks at Delphi.
Who acts: white aquatic birds, all · What happens: skim, be · To what, where: surface, flight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white aquatic birds, all), 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 | 4 birds | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 3 | aquatic | aquatic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | compound |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 skimmed | nsubj |
| 5 | skimmed | skim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surface | det |
| 7 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skimmed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surface | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 flight | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skimmed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 calm | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 calm | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 calm | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 calm | cop |
| 18 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skimmed | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 amid | cc |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 amid | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 amid | case |
| 22 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calm | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rocks | det |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rocks | amod |
| 25 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 calm | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Delphi | case |
| 27 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 rocks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skim | past | the white aquatic birds | the surface of the water | waters's flight | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent surface=Source | |||
| 2 | is | past | all | calm property | tree rules |
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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