Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 62

The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows and lime-trees were reflected in it, as Rudy stepped along the path to the miller's house.

Who acts: clear water, Rudy · What happens: roll, reflect, step · To what, where: yellow bed, willows, water, house

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 (clear water, Rudy), 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	3 water	det
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	nmod
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 bed	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 reflected	cc
14	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reflected	nsubj:pass
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 trees	cc
16	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 lime	punct
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 willows	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reflected	aux:pass
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rolled	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reflected	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stepped	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 stepped	mark
25	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	nsubj
26	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rolled	conj
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 path	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 path	det
29	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 miller	det
32	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 miller	case
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	past	the clear water of the river		water's yellow bed		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bed=Trajectory
2	reflect	past · passive		willows and lime trees	water		tree rules
3	step	past	Rudy		the miller's house	along the path	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination

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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