Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 9

The waters foam and dash along in the valleys beneath; the streams from above trickle and murmur as they fall down the rocky mountain's side, looking like glittering silver bands.

Who acts: waters, valleys · What happens: foam, dash, fall down, look, glitter · To what, where: streams, valleys, side, silver bands

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 (waters, valleys), 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	2 waters	det
2	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foam	nsubj
3	foam	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dash	cc
5	dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 foam	conj
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 dash	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 valleys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valleys	det
9	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dash	obl
10	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	5 dash	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 streams	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 streams	det
13	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foam	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 trickle	case
15	above	above	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trickle	amod
16	trickle	trickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 streams	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 murmur	cc
18	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trickle	conj
19	as	as	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	3 foam	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	27 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountain	det
24	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mountain	amod
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 mountain	case
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looking	punct
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fall	conj
30	like	like	SCONJ	_	31 glittering	mark
31	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 looking	advcl
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bands	compound
33	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 glittering	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 foam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	foam	present	the waters	the streams from above trickle and murmur			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dash	present	the waters not said here		the valleys	along, beneath property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory
3	fall down	present	valleys = valley	the rocky mountain's side			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient side=Result
4	look	gerund	valleys = valley not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	glitter	gerund	valleys = valley not said here	silver bands			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent band=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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