The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 11

The waves, instead of beating on the rocks, seemed to die gently on the shore; clusters of golden bushes covered the land, and the vines were bent low with grapes.

Who acts: waves, clusters · What happens: beat, seem, die, cover, bend · To what, where: rocks, shore, land, vines

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waves, clusters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beating	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 beating	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 waves	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 rocks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rocks	det
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beating	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waves	punct
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 die	mark
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	gently	gently	ADV	_	13 die	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
19	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 covered	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bushes	case
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bushes	amod
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clusters	nmod
23	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bent	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bent	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vines	det
29	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bent	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bent	aux:pass
31	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 covered	conj
32	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 bent	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 grapes	case
34	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bent	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund	the waves not said here		the rocks		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location
2	seem	past	the waves				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	die	to-infinitive	the waves not said here		the shore	gently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	cover	past	clusters of golden bushes	the land			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination
5	bend	past · passive		the vines		with grapes; low property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grape=Instrument

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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