Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 44

Rudy had never been so far away before; he had never trodden on the wide-spreading ocean of snow that lay here with its immovable billows, from which the wind blows off the snowflake now and then, as it cuts the foam from the waves of the sea.

Who acts: Rudy, wide spreading ocean, wind, snow · What happens: have, not be, not tread, spread, lie, blow off · To what, where: wide spreading ocean, snowflake, foam, waves, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, wide spreading ocean, wind, snow), 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	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 away	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 away	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	2 had	advcl
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 trodden	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trodden	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trodden	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 trodden	advmod
13	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	19 ocean	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ocean	det
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ocean	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 wide	punct
18	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 ocean	amod
19	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trodden	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 snow	case
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ocean	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ocean	acl:relcl
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 lay	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 billows	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 billows	nmod:poss
27	immovable	immovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 billows	amod
28	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blows	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 blows	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blows	nsubj
34	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trodden	parataxis
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 blows	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 snowflake	det
37	snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blows	obj
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 blows	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 then	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 now	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cuts	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 cuts	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cuts	nsubj
44	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 blows	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 foam	det
46	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cuts	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 waves	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 waves	det
49	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 foam	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 sea	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sea	det
52	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 waves	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rudy					tree rules
2	not is	participle	Rudy not said here				away, before, far property	tree rules
3	not tread	past · perfect	Rudy		the wide spreading ocean of snow			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ocean=Trajectory
4	spread	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	past	the wide spreading ocean of snow		here		with snow's immovable billows	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	blow off	present	the wind	the snowflake		now		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent snowflake=Patient from which=Co-Patient
7	cut	present	wind	the foam	the waves of the sea			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset foam=Product from wave=Material
8	billow		snow					nom billow «event intransitive»: poss=agent
9	wave			the sea				nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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