Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 82
Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the watery mirror, like white butterflies.
Who acts: Pleasure boats · What happens: skim · To what, where: watery mirror
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 (Pleasure boats), 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 | Pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boats | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pleasure | punct |
| 3 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skim | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sails | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sails | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sails | nmod:poss |
| 7 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sails | compound |
| 8 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boats | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skim | punct |
| 10 | skim | skim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 10 skim | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 mirror | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mirror | det |
| 14 | watery | watery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mirror | amod |
| 15 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skim | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 butterflies | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 butterflies | case |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 butterflies | amod |
| 19 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skim | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 skim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skim | infinitive | Pleasure boats and flags's swelling sails | the watery mirror | like white butterflies; lightly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: 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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