Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 8

The oars divided the pliant water like the fins of a fish--that water which, with all its yielding softness, is so strong to bear and to carry, so mild and smiling when at rest, and yet so terrible in its destroying power.

Who acts: oars, fish · What happens: divide, yield, be, bear, carry, smile · To what, where: pliant water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oars, fish), 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 oars	det
2	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 divided	nsubj
3	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	pliant	pliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 divided	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 fins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fins	det
9	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 divided	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fins	nmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	conj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 strong	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 softness	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 softness	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 softness	det:predet
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 softness	nmod:poss
21	yielding	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 softness	amod
22	softness	softness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 which	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 softness	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 strong	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 strong	advmod
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fish	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 bear	mark
28	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 strong	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carry	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 carry	mark
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bear	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mild	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 mild	advmod
34	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 divided	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 smiling	cc
36	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 mild	conj
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 smiling	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 rest	case
39	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 when	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 terrible	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 terrible	cc
42	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 terrible	advmod
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 terrible	advmod
44	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rest	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 power	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 power	nmod:poss
47	destroying	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 power	amod
48	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 terrible	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	divide	past	the oars	the pliant water	like the fins of a fish and that water	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	yield	gerund				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a fish and that water		strong property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive	a fish and that water not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	carry	to-infinitive	a fish and that water not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	smile	gerund	the oars not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	destroy	gerund				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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