Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 39

No one saw it but the skimming sea-gulls and the fishes beneath the water; and even they did not see it properly, for they darted back with terror as the boat filled with water and sank.

Who acts: one, fishes · What happens: see, skim, not see, dart back, fill, sink · To what, where: beam, boat

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 (one, fishes), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gulls	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gulls	det
7	skimming	skim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gulls	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gulls	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fishes	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fishes	det
13	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gulls	conj
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
19	even	even	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 darted	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 darted	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 darted	nsubj
29	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 darted	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 terror	case
32	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 darted	obl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 boat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boat	det
35	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 darted	obl
36	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 boat	acl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 filled	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sank	cc
40	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 darted	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	no one	beam	beneath the water	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	skim	gerund				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	not see	past · do-support	fishes = fish	beam	properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	dart back	past	fishes = fish		with terror; as the boat	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fill	participle		the boat not said here	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
6	sink	past	fishes = fish not said here			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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