Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 21

They floated on swiftly, for the tide was in their favor, passing over lakes, formed by the stream in its course; sometimes they seemed quite enclosed by reeds and water-plants, yet there was always room for them to pass out, although the old trees overhung the water and the old oaks stretched out their bare branches, as if they had turned up their sleeves and wished to show their knotty, naked arms.

Who acts: bread, tide, room, old trees · What happens: float on, be, pass, form, seem, enclose · To what, where: lakes, water, old oaks, sleeves, knotty naked arms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread, tide, room, old trees), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 floated	compound:prt
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	2 floated	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 favor	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	12 favor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tide	det
8	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 favor	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 favor	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 favor	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 favor	nmod:poss
12	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passing	punct
14	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 floated	advcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 lakes	case
16	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 formed	punct
18	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lakes	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 stream	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stream	det
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 formed	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 course	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 course	nmod:poss
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stream	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 seemed	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 floated	parataxis
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 enclosed	advmod
30	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seemed	xcomp
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 reeds	case
32	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 enclosed	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 plants	cc
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plants	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 water	punct
36	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reeds	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 was	punct
38	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	40 was	cc
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seemed	parataxis
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 room	advmod
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 was	nsubj
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 pass	mark
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 pass	nsubj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 pass	mark
46	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 room	acl:relcl
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 pass	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 overhung	punct
49	although	although	SCONJ	_	53 overhung	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 trees	det
51	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 trees	amod
52	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 overhung	nsubj
53	overhung	overhang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 pass	parataxis
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 water	det
55	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 overhung	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 stretched	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 oaks	det
58	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 oaks	amod
59	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 stretched	nsubj:pass
60	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 overhung	conj
61	out	out	ADP	_	60 stretched	compound:prt
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 branches	nmod:poss
63	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 branches	amod
64	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 stretched	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 turned	punct
66	as	as	SCONJ	_	70 turned	mark
67	if	if	SCONJ	_	70 turned	mark
68	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 turned	nsubj
69	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 turned	aux
70	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 stretched	conj
71	up	up	ADP	_	70 turned	compound:prt
72	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 sleeves	nmod:poss
73	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 turned	obj
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 wished	cc
75	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 turned	conj
76	to	to	PART	_	77 show	mark
77	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 wished	xcomp
78	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 arms	nmod:poss
79	knotty	knotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 arms	amod
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 knotty	punct
81	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 arms	amod
82	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 show	obj
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float on	past	bread			swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the tide			for bread's favor	tree rules
3	pass	gerund	bread not said here		lakes		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over lake=Location
4	form	participle		lakes not said here		by the stream in tide's course	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Location
5	seem	past	bread			sometimes property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	enclose	participle	bread not said here			by reeds and water plants	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	be	past	room		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pass out	to-infinitive	bread				vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	overhang	past	the old trees	the water			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
10	stretch out	participle · passive		the old oaks			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient branch=Result
11	turn up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	bread	bread's sleeves			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleeve=Theme
12	wish	past	bread not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
13	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	bread not said here	bread's knotty naked arms			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Recipient

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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