Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 9

A white streak of foam followed in the wake of the boat, which, in a few minutes, carried them both to the little island, where they went on shore; but there was only just room enough for two to dance.

Who acts: white streak, oars · What happens: follow, carry, go, be, dance · To what, where: white streak, wake, oars, little island, shore, room

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 (white streak, oars), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 streak	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 streak	amod
3	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 foam	case
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 streak	nmod
6	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 streak	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wake	det
9	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 boat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wake	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 minutes	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 minutes	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 minutes	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 minutes	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 minutes	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 minutes	amod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 boat	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 streak	punct
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obj
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	appos
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 island	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 island	amod
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 went	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 island	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 shore	case
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 room	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 room	cop
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 room	advmod
39	just	just	ADV	_	40 room	advmod
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	conj
41	enough	enough	ADV	_	40 room	advmod
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 two	case
43	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 carried	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 dance	mark
45	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 carried	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	participle		a white streak of foam not said here	the wake of the boat		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wake=Location
2	carry	past	a white streak of foam	oars = oar	the little island	for two	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to island=Destination
3	go	past	oars = oar		shore		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
4	is a	past	a white streak of foam not said here	room		enough property	tree rules
5	dance	to-infinitive	a white streak of foam not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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