Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 95

"See, yonder is a sea-gull!" cried the children, when they saw the white bird, as it dived into the sea, and rose again into the clear sunlight, white and glittering.

Who acts: children, crumbs, bird · What happens: see, be, cry, dive, rise, glitter · To what, where: sea gull, white bird, sea, clear sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, crumbs, bird), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gull	punct
4	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	9 gull	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gull	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gull	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gull	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sea	punct
9	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dived	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 dived	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dived	nsubj
25	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dived	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rose	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rose	cc
31	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 rose	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 sunlight	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sunlight	det
35	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sunlight	amod
36	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rose	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 white	punct
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sunlight	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 glittering	cc
40	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 white	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present		a sea gull			yonder property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the children					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	past	crumbs = crumb	the white bird				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
5	dive	past	bird		the sea			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location
6	rise	past	the children not said here		the clear sunlight	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sunlight=Initial_Location
7	glitter	gerund	the children not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «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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