Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 5
An uprooted fir-tree was being carried away by the current, and marking out its path by eddying circles on the water.
Who acts: current · What happens: uproot, carry away, mark out, eddy · To what, where: uprooted fir tree, path, circles, water
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 (current), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tree | amod |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 carried | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 current | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 current | det |
| 12 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 marking | cc |
| 15 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 carried | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 marking | compound:prt |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 path | nmod:poss |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marking | obj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 eddying | mark |
| 20 | eddying | eddy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 marking | advcl |
| 21 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 eddying | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eddying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uproot | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | carry away | past · passive | the current | a uprooted fir tree | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | mark out | gerund | the current not said here | tree's path | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Destination | ||||
| 4 | eddy | gerund | the current not said here | circles | the water | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=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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