Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 18

Presently they came in sight of land; she saw lofty blue mountains, on which the white snow rested as if a flock of swans were lying upon them.

Who acts: eyes, mermaid, flock · What happens: come, see, rest, lie, sight · To what, where: sight, lofty blue mountains, white snow, land

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, mermaid, flock), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 sight	case
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
11	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mountains	amod
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mountains	amod
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 snow	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 snow	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 snow	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 snow	amod
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	conj
20	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 snow	acl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 lying	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 lying	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 flock	det
24	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lying	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 swans	case
26	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flock	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lying	aux
28	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 rested	advcl
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	eyes = eye		sight of land	presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
2	see	past	mermaid	lofty blue mountains			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus
3	rest	participle		the white snow not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past · progressive	a flock of swans			upon eyes = eye	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon they=Location
5	sight			land			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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