Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 53

Great quantities of fish could be seen through the clear water, sparkling in the sun's rays; they were quite surprised when they came so suddenly upon such an unexpected sight.

Who acts: quantities, sun · What happens: see, sparkle, be, come, ray · To what, where: Great quantities, clear water, rays

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 (quantities, sun), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quantities	amod
2	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantities	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sparkling	punct
13	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seen	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 rays	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rays	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 sun	case
18	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sparkling	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 surprised	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 surprised	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 surprised	cop
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 surprised	advmod
23	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seen	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 surprised	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 suddenly	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 sight	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sight	det:predet
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sight	det
32	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sight	amod
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 suddenly	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		Great quantities of fish	the clear water		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	sparkle	gerund			the sun's rays		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location
3	is	past	quantities = quantity			surprised property	tree rules
4	come	past	quantities = quantity			suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ray		the sun				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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