The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 58

Thereupon they bent their steps towards the sea, which stretched out before them, as far as their eyes could see, all the waves dancing and glittering in the bright sunshine.

Who acts: princes, eyes, waves · What happens: bend, stretch out, see, dance, glitter, step · To what, where: steps, waves, bright sunshine

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, eyes, waves), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 bent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bent	nsubj
3	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steps	nmod:poss
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bent	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stretched	nsubj
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 stretched	compound:prt
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stretched	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 see	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stretched	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waves	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 waves	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waves	det
26	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
27	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 waves	acl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glittering	cc
29	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dancing	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 sunshine	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sunshine	det
32	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sunshine	amod
33	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glittering	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	princes = prince	princes's steps			towards the sea; thereupon property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent step=Material
2	stretch out	past				before princes = prince		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	could	princes's eyes	all waves			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	dance	gerund	all waves not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	glitter	gerund	all waves not said here		the bright sunshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
6	step		princes = prince					nom step «act 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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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