Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 10

Then she seated herself on the trunk of the fir-tree as on a broken skiff, and the water from the glaciers carried her down the river to the open lake.

Who acts: moon, water · What happens: seat, break, carry down · To what, where: moon, trunk

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunk	nmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 skiff	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 skiff	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 skiff	det
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 skiff	amod
17	skiff	skiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carried	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 glaciers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glaciers	det
24	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 water	nmod
25	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carried	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 carried	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 river	det
29	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 lake	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lake	det
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lake	amod
33	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past	moon	moon		the trunk of the fir tree	then	as a broken skiff	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	carry down	past	the water from the glaciers		moon			to the open lake	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary river=Value

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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