Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 88
The high walls and indented battlements were reflected in the water of the ditches, on which swans were swimming and peering into the old shady avenues.
Who acts: swans · What happens: indent, reflect, swim, peer · To what, where: high walls, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swans), 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 | 3 walls | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | amod |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 battlements | cc |
| 5 | indented | indent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 battlements | amod |
| 6 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walls | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reflected | aux:pass |
| 8 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflected | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ditches | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ditches | det |
| 14 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 water | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swimming | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 swimming | obl |
| 18 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swimming | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swimming | aux |
| 20 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reflected | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 peering | cc |
| 22 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 swimming | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 avenues | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 avenues | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 avenues | amod |
| 26 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 avenues | amod |
| 27 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 peering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indent | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reflect | past · passive | the high walls and indented battlements | the water of the ditches | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | swans | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | peer | gerund | swans not said here | into the old shady avenues | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into avenue=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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