Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 73

She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath, and spring lightly from one iceberg to another, with her long, snow-white hair flowing around her, and her dark-green robe glittering like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes. "

Who acts: laughter, snow, white hair, dark green robe · What happens: sail, rage, hair, flow, glitter · To what, where: frail pine twig

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laughter, snow, white hair, dark green robe), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sail	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sail	aux
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 twig	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 twig	det
6	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 twig	amod
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twig	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 pine	punct
9	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 torrents	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 torrents	det
12	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 torrents	amod
13	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sail	obl
14	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	3 sail	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spring	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spring	cc
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl
18	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	3 sail	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 iceberg	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 iceberg	nummod
21	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 another	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 sail	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 long	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 long	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sail	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hair	punct
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hair	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 white	punct
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hair	amod
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 long	obl
33	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 hair	acl
34	around	around	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flowing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 robe	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 robe	cc
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 robe	nmod:poss
39	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 robe	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 dark	punct
41	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 robe	amod
42	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	parataxis
43	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 robe	acl
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 waters	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 waters	det
46	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 glittering	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 lakes	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 lakes	det
49	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lakes	amod
50	Swiss	swiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lakes	compound
51	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 waters	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sail	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	future	laughter	a frail pine twig	spring	over the raging torrents; from one iceberg; to another; beneath, lightly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over torrent=Trajectory
2	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hair		snow				tree rules
4	flow	gerund	white hair not said here			around laughter	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location
5	glitter	gerund	laughter's dark green robe not said here			like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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