Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 107

Very soon he perceived in the distance, waving flags, on which glittered a white cross on a red ground--the standard of the Danes as well as of the Swiss--and before him lay Interlachen.

Who acts: foliage · What happens: perceive, wave, glitter, lie · To what, where: flags, white cross, red ground, Interlachen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foliage), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 perceived	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 distance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waving	punct
9	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 perceived	advcl
10	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glittered	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 glittered	nsubj
14	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cross	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cross	amod
17	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glittered	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 ground	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ground	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ground	amod
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glittered	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 standard	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 standard	det
24	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ground	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Danes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Danes	det
27	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 standard	nmod
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	33 Swiss	cc
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Swiss	det
33	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 standard	conj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 lay	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lay	cc
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 lay	mark
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lay	nsubj
38	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	conj
39	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 lay	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	foliage			in the distance; soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	wave	gerund	foliage not said here	flags			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
3	glitter	past		a white cross	a red ground		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
4	lie	past	foliage	Interlachen			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location interlachen=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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