Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 5

The waves rose mountains high, as if they would have overtopped the mast; but the ship dived like a swan between them, and then rose again on their lofty, foaming crests.

Who acts: waves, ship · What happens: rise, overtop, dive, foam · To what, where: mountains, mast, lofty, crests

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 (waves, ship), 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	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	obj
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rose	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overtopped	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 overtopped	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 overtopped	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtopped	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 overtopped	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 overtopped	aux
12	overtopped	overtop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 rose	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mast	det
14	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 overtopped	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 dived	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 dived	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ship	det
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dived	nsubj
19	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 swan	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 swan	det
22	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dived	obl
23	between	between	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swan	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rose	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 rose	advmod
28	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 rose	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 lofty	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lofty	nmod:poss
32	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rose	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 foaming	punct
34	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 rose	advcl
35	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 foaming	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the waves	mountains			high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
2	overtop a condition, not said to happen	would · perfect	waves = wave	the mast				tree rules
3	dive	past	the ship				like a swan between waves	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	rise	past	the waves not said here		waves's lofty	then; again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lofty=Location
5	foam	gerund	the waves not said here	crests				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location crest=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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