Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 83
Great suns spurted fire about, splendid fireflies flew into the blue air, and everything was reflected in the clear, calm sea beneath.
Who acts: Great suns · What happens: spurt, fly, reflect · To what, where: fire, blue air, everything, clear calm 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 (Great suns), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 suns | amod |
| 2 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 suns | acl |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spurted | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 spurted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fireflies | punct |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fireflies | amod |
| 8 | fireflies | firefly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 air | amod |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reflected | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reflected | cc |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reflected | aux:pass |
| 18 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flew | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clear | punct |
| 23 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reflected | obl |
| 25 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 18 reflected | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spurt | participle | Great suns not said here | fire | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | Great suns | into the blue air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 3 | reflect | past · passive | everything | the clear calm sea | beneath property | tree rules |
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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