Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 40
Springs of water flowed out of the cliff in thick waterspouts, so that there was a continual splashing.
Who acts: continual splashing · What happens: flow out, be · To what, where: Springs, cliff
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (continual splashing), 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 | Springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 water | case |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Springs | nmod |
| 4 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cliff | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cliff | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cliff | det |
| 8 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flowed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 waterspouts | case |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waterspouts | amod |
| 11 | waterspouts | waterspout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cliff | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 was | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flowed | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 splashing | det |
| 18 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 splashing | amod |
| 19 | splashing | splashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow out | participle · passive | Springs of water | the cliff in thick waterspouts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a continual splashing | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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