Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 2

My face was mirrored in the waters of the Ganges, and my beams strove to pierce through the thick intertwining boughs of the bananas, arching beneath me like the tortoise's shell.

Who acts: beams, my · What happens: mirror, strive, pierce, arch, beam · To what, where: face, waters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, my), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mirrored	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mirrored	aux:pass
4	mirrored	mirror	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 waters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waters	det
7	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mirrored	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ganges	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ganges	det
10	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 waters	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strove	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 strove	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beams	nmod:poss
14	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strove	nsubj
15	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mirrored	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pierce	mark
17	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strove	xcomp
18	through	through	ADP	_	22 boughs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boughs	det
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boughs	amod
21	intertwining	intertwining	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boughs	compound
22	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pierce	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bananas	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bananas	det
25	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 boughs	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arching	punct
27	arching	arch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 strove	advcl
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 arching	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	34 shell	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tortoise	det
32	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shell	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 tortoise	case
34	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arching	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mirrored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mirror	past · passive		My face	the waters of the Ganges		tree rules
2	strive	past	my beams				tree rules
3	pierce	to-infinitive	my beams not said here			through the thick intertwining boughs of the bananas	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through bough=Patient
4	arch	gerund	my beams not said here			beneath me; like the tortoise's shell	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beam		my				nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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