Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 3

After a while, the sails were quickly unfurled, and the noble ship continued her passage; but soon the waves rose higher, heavy clouds darkened the sky, and lightning appeared in the distance.

Who acts: noble ship, waves, heavy clouds, lightning, mermaid · What happens: unfurl, continue, rise, darken, appear, pass · To what, where: sails, passage, sky

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 (noble ship, waves, heavy clouds, 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unfurled	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sails	det
6	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unfurled	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unfurled	aux:pass
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 unfurled	advmod
9	unfurled	unfurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 continued	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 continued	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
13	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ship	amod
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continued	nsubj
15	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unfurled	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 passage	nmod:poss
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continued	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 rose	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unfurled	parataxis
24	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 rose	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 darkened	punct
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clouds	amod
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 darkened	nsubj
28	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sky	det
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 darkened	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 appeared	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 appeared	cc
33	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeared	nsubj
34	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 distance	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 distance	det
37	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeared	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unfurled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	unfurl	past · passive		the sails	while	quickly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	continue	past	the noble ship	mermaid's passage			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent passage=Theme
3	rise	past	the waves			high, soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	darken	past	heavy clouds	the sky			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient
5	appear	past	lightning			in the distance	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location
6	pass		mermaid				nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=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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