Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 40
The crows, ravens and magpies started up in terror at the yelling and shouting that sounded around.
Who acts: crows, shouting · What happens: start up, sound around · To what, where: terror
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crows, shouting), 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 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 started | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ravens | punct |
| 4 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crows | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 magpies | cc |
| 6 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crows | conj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 started | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 terror | case |
| 10 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 yelling | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yelling | det |
| 13 | yelling | yelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shouting | cc |
| 15 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yelling | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sounded | nsubj |
| 17 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shouting | acl:relcl |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 sounded | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | the crows and ravens and magpies | terror | at the yelling and shouting | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | sound around | past | shouting | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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