Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 36
It had struck on a rock, which rose from the depths of the sea, and sank at once, like an old shoe in a puddle. "
Who acts: beam, rock · What happens: strike, rise, sink · To what, where: rock, depths
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 (beam, rock), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | aux |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rock | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 depths | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 depths | det |
| 12 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rose | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depths | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sank | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sank | cc |
| 18 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 sank | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shoe | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 shoe | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shoe | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shoe | amod |
| 25 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sank | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 puddle | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 puddle | det |
| 28 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shoe | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · perfect | beam | a rock | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | a rock | the depths of the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from depth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sink | past | beam not said here | like a old shoe in a puddle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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