Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 58

Towards evening, as the sun went down, dark clouds covered the sky, the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, and the red light glowed on the icebergs as they rocked and tossed on the heaving sea.

Who acts: sun, dark clouds, thunder, lightning, red light, icebergs · What happens: go down, cover, roll, flash, glow, rock · To what, where: sky, icebergs, heaving sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, dark clouds, thunder, lightning), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 covered	punct
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clouds	amod
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	nsubj
12	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thunder	det
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	nsubj
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flashed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lightning	det
21	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flashed	nsubj
22	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rolled	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glowed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glowed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 light	det
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glowed	nsubj
28	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rolled	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 icebergs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 icebergs	det
31	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 glowed	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 rocked	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rocked	nsubj
34	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 glowed	advcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tossed	cc
36	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 rocked	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 sea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sea	det
39	heaving	heave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 sea	amod
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tossed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sun			evening	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cover	past	dark clouds	the sky				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Destination
3	roll	past	the thunder					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flash	past	the lightning					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	glow	participle	the red light		the icebergs			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on iceberg=Location
6	rock	past	icebergs = iceberg					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	toss	participle	icebergs = iceberg not said here		the heaving sea			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on sea=Destination
8	heave	gerund						vn push-12 «NP V NP»: 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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