Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 23
The water-lilies waved themselves to and fro on the river, everything made the excursion beautiful, and at last they came to the great eel-weir, where the water rushed through the flood-gates; and the children thought this a beautiful sight.
Who acts: water lilies, everything, lilies, children · What happens: wave, fro, make, come, rush, think · To what, where: lilies, river, excursion, last, water, flood gates
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 (water lilies, everything, lilies, children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lilies | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lilies | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
| 4 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waved | nsubj |
| 5 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 waved | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 waved | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fro | cc |
| 9 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waved | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fro | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waved | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 excursion | det |
| 17 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 came | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waved | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 weir | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 weir | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weir | amod |
| 28 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weir | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 eel | punct |
| 30 | weir | weir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 where | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 weir | nmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 where | nsubj |
| 35 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 water | acl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 gates | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gates | det |
| 38 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gates | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 flood | punct |
| 40 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rushed | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 thought | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 thought | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 children | det |
| 44 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 thought | nsubj |
| 45 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waved | conj |
| 46 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 thought | obj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 sight | det |
| 48 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 sight | amod |
| 49 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 thought | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the water lilies | lilies = lily | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | the water lilies not said here | the river | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | everything | the excursion | beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material excursion=Product | |||
| 4 | come | past | lilies = lily | last | to the great eel weir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to weir=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | rush | participle | the water not said here | the flood gates | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the children | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme sight=Attribute |
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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