Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 7

At length the ship groaned and creaked; the thick planks gave way under the lashing of the sea as it broke over the deck; the mainmast snapped asunder like a reed; the ship lay over on her side; and the water rushed in.

Who acts: ship, thick planks, mainmast, water · What happens: groan, creak, give, break, snap, lie over · To what, where: way, lashing, deck, asunder, side

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 (ship, thick planks, mainmast, water), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 groaned	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 groaned	nsubj
5	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 creaked	cc
7	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 groaned	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 planks	det
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 planks	amod
11	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 groaned	conj
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 lashing	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lashing	det
16	lashing	lashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lashing	nmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 broke	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 broke	nsubj
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	advcl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 deck	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 deck	det
25	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 snapped	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mainmast	det
28	mainmast	mainmast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snapped	nsubj
29	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 groaned	parataxis
30	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snapped	obj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 reed	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 reed	det
33	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snapped	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ship	det
36	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	nsubj
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 snapped	conj
38	over	over	ADV	_	37 lay	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 side	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 side	nmod:poss
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 rushed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rushed	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rushed	nsubj
46	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 groaned	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	46 rushed	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	groan	past	the ship			at length	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at length=Stimulus
2	creak	past	the ship not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	the thick planks	way	the lashing of the sea		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	break	past	ship		the deck		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over deck=Location
5	snap	past	the mainmast	asunder		like a reed	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme
6	lie over	past	the ship		mainmast's side	over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
7	rush in	participle	the water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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