Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 5
He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark just as he lately glanced down upon me, and brought comfort and promise of a new world that was to spring forth from the old.
Who acts: friend, new world · What happens: glide, smile, glance down, bring, be, promise · To what, where: waters, ark, comfort, old, new world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, new world), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glided | nsubj |
| 2 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 waters | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waters | det |
| 5 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glided | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Deluge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Deluge | det |
| 8 | Deluge | Deluge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waters | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smiled | cc |
| 11 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glided | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ark | case |
| 13 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ark | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Noah | case |
| 15 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smiled | obl |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 glanced | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 glanced | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 glanced | nsubj |
| 19 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 20 glanced | advmod |
| 20 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 smiled | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 glanced | advmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 glanced | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brought | cc |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glided | conj |
| 27 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 promise | cc |
| 29 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 comfort | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 world | amod |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 promise | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 spring | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 spring | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 spring | mark |
| 37 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 world | acl:relcl |
| 38 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 37 spring | advmod |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 old | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 old | det |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 spring | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | friend | the waters of the Deluge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Noah's ark | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | glance down | past | friend | upon me; down, lately property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | friend not said here | comfort and promise of a new world | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a new world | the old | forth, spring property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | promise | a new world | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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