Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 121
A storm approaches without, calling aloud for human lives.
Who acts: storm · What happens: approach, call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approaches | nsubj |
| 3 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 3 approaches | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 calling | punct |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 approaches | advcl |
| 7 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 6 calling | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 lives | case |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lives | amod |
| 10 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 calling | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | present | a storm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | a storm not said here | for human lives; aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for life=Recipient |
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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