Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 16

The mill at Bex stood in the highway, which passed under the snow-clad mountains, and not far from a rapid mountain-stream, whose waters seemed to have been lashed into a foam like soap-suds.

Who acts: mill, highway · What happens: stand, pass, seem, lash · To what, where: highway, clad mountains, foam

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, highway), 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 mill	det
2	mill	mill	NOUN	_	5 stood	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Bex	case
4	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mill	nmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 highway	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 highway	det
8	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 highway	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	17 mountains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clad	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 snow	punct
16	clad	clad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 passed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 seemed	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	27 stream	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stream	det
24	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stream	amod
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stream	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 mountain	punct
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 far	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 waters	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 waters	nmod:poss
30	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stream	conj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	35 lashed	mark
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 lashed	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 lashed	aux:pass
35	lashed	lash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 seemed	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 foam	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 foam	det
38	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lashed	obl
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 suds	case
40	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 suds	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 soap	punct
42	suds	sud	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 foam	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the mill at Bex	the highway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in highway=Location
2	pass	past	the highway	the clad mountains		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under mountain=Location
3	seem	past			far property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	lash	to-infinitive · perfect · passive		a foam like soap suds		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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