Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 86
On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed so rapidly that very few were able to swim against the stream.
Who acts: water, few · What happens: be, flow, swim · To what, where: broad deep river, one side, stream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, few), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 river | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 river | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broad | punct |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flowed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flowed | nsubj |
| 16 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 river | acl:relcl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rapidly | advmod |
| 18 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 16 flowed | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 able | mark |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 few | advmod |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 able | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flowed | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 swim | mark |
| 25 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 stream | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stream | det |
| 28 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swim | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 river | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a broad deep river | one side of the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the water | a broad deep river not said here | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | few | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swim | to-infinitive | few not said here | the stream | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stream=Trajectory |
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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