Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 84
Others tread the air as a swimmer treads the water, and lure their victims here and there till they fall into the deep abyss.
Who acts: Others, swimmer, victims · What happens: tread, lure, fall · To what, where: air, water, victims, deep abyss
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 (Others, swimmer, victims), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tread | nsubj |
| 2 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tread | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 treads | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 swimmer | det |
| 7 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treads | nsubj |
| 8 | treads | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tread | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treads | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lure | cc |
| 13 | lure | lure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tread | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 victims | nmod:poss |
| 15 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lure | obj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lure | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 here | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 fall | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fall | nsubj |
| 21 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lure | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 abyss | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 abyss | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 abyss | amod |
| 25 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | present | Others | the air | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tread | present | a swimmer | the water | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lure | infinitive | Others not said here | waters's victims | here | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Patient | |||
| 4 | fall | present | victims = victim | into the deep abyss result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result |
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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