Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 81
Steamboats, with waving flags, pass swiftly by.
Who acts: Steamboats · What happens: wave, pass
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 (Steamboats), 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 | Steamboats | steamboat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flags | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 flags | case |
| 4 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 flags | amod |
| 5 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Steamboats | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steamboats | punct |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 pass | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pass | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present | Steamboats and waving flags | swiftly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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