Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 3
Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga.
Who acts: me · What happens: float, throw, call · To what, where: waves, long shadows, called graves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (me), 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 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 floated | mark |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waves | det |
| 5 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 floated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 throwing | punct |
| 7 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 floated | advcl |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shadows | amod |
| 9 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 throwing | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 graves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 graves | det |
| 12 | so | so | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 so | punct |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 graves | amod |
| 15 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 throwing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Odin | case |
| 17 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 graves | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Thor | punct |
| 19 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Odin | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Friga | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Friga | cc |
| 22 | Friga | Friga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Odin | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | me | the waves | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | me not said here | long shadows | the called graves of Odin and Thor and Friga | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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