Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 72
The monstrous snake which, it is said, surrounds the earth in the depths of the ocean, was trembling in spasmodic convulsions.
Who acts: monstrous snake · What happens: say, surround, tremble · To what, where: monstrous snake, earth, spasmodic convulsions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous snake), 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 | 3 snake | det |
| 2 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snake | amod |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounds | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 which | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 snake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 10 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounds | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 depths | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 depths | det |
| 15 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 earth | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ocean | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ocean | det |
| 18 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depths | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trembling | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 trembling | aux |
| 21 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 surrounds | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 convulsions | case |
| 23 | spasmodic | spasmodic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 convulsions | amod |
| 24 | convulsions | convulsion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 trembling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 surrounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the monstrous snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | surround | present | the monstrous snake | the earth | in the depths of the ocean | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Destination in depth=Theme | |||
| 3 | tremble | past · progressive | the monstrous snake not said here | spasmodic convulsions | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in convulsion=Location |
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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