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

I mirrored my face in the Tyris river, while the steamboat drove the fish into the rushes.

Who acts: I, steamboat · What happens: mirror, drive · To what, where: face, Tyris river, fish, rushes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, steamboat), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mirrored	nsubj
2	mirrored	mirror	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mirrored	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	Tyris	Tyris	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 river	compound
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mirrored	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drove	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 drove	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 steamboat	det
12	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	nsubj
13	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mirrored	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 rushes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rushes	det
18	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drove	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mirrored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mirror	past	I	my face		the Tyris river			tree rules
2	drive	past	the steamboat	the fish		the rushes			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into rush=Trajectory

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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