Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 34
Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound. "
Who acts: Large rocks · What happens: cover, lie, ripple · To what, where: Large rocks, fresh spring water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Large rocks), 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 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rocks | amod |
| 2 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rocks | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 moss | case |
| 6 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hues | case |
| 8 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hues | amod |
| 9 | hues | hue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moss | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rocks | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lying | aux |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 lying | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | compound |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obj |
| 19 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 water | acl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 rippled | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sound | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sound | det |
| 23 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sound | compound |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rippled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | Large rocks not said here | with moss of various hues | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | Large rocks | the fresh spring water | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | |||
| 3 | ripple | participle | the fresh spring water not said here | with a peculiar sound; forth property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=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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