Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 34
Was it a waterspout, or a heavy sea rolling suddenly upon them?
Who acts: boat, heavy sea · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: waterspout
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, heavy sea), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waterspout | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waterspout | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 waterspout | det |
| 4 | waterspout | waterspout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sea | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waterspout | appos |
| 10 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sea | acl |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 rolling | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rolling | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 waterspout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | a waterspout | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | a heavy sea not said here | upon hands = hand; suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory |
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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