Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 13
No hostile tribes met them in their pathless route, no storms arose, no columns of sand whirled destruction over the journeying caravan.
Who acts: hostile tribes, storms, columns · What happens: meet, arise, whirl, journey · To what, where: rocks, pathless route, columns, destruction, journeying caravan
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostile tribes, storms, columns), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 tribes | det |
| 2 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tribes | amod |
| 3 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 route | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 route | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pathless | pathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 route | amod |
| 9 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arose | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 storms | det |
| 12 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arose | nsubj |
| 13 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 columns | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 columns | det |
| 16 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arose | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sand | case |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 columns | nmod |
| 19 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 columns | acl |
| 20 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whirled | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 caravan | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caravan | det |
| 23 | journeying | journey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 caravan | amod |
| 24 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whirled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | no hostile tribes | rocks = rock | rocks's pathless route | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | arise | past | no storms | no columns of sand | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whirl | participle | no columns of sand not said here | destruction | the journeying caravan | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme over caravan=Destination | |||
| 4 | journey | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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