Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 92
As Anne Lisbeth walked on she could hear her own footsteps in the sands; even the waves of the sea were at rest, and all in the deep waters had sunk into silence.
Who acts: Anne, waves · What happens: walk, hear, be, sink, wave · To what, where: own footsteps, sands, rest, all, silence, sea
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 (Anne, waves), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 Anne | case |
| 2 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anne | flat |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walked | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 footsteps | amod |
| 11 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hear | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sands | det |
| 14 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hear | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 waves | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 waves | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 waves | det |
| 18 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rest | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waves | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rest | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 rest | case |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sunk | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sunk | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 waters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 waters | det |
| 30 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 waters | amod |
| 31 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 all | nmod |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sunk | aux |
| 33 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 walked | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 silence | case |
| 35 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sunk | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Anne | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | could | Anne | Anne's own footsteps | the sands | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | the waves of the sea | rest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect · passive | all | silence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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