Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 2
We hear what is called the "Wester-wow-wow"--the peculiar roar of the North Sea as it breaks against the western coast of Jutland.
Who acts: We, scene, North Sea · What happens: hear, call, break, roar · To what, where: western coast · 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 (We, scene, North Sea), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hear | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wester | det |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wester | punct |
| 8 | Wester | Wester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wow | punct |
| 10 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 12 wow | discourse |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wow | punct |
| 12 | wow | wow | NOUN | _ | 8 Wester | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wow | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 roar | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roar | det |
| 16 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 roar | amod |
| 17 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Wester | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sea | det |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sea | compound |
| 21 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 roar | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 breaks | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 breaks | nsubj |
| 24 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | advcl |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 coast | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 coast | det |
| 27 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 coast | amod |
| 28 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 breaks | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Jutland | case |
| 30 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 coast | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | We | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||||
| 3 | break | present | scene | the western coast of Jutland | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against coast=Location | ||||
| 4 | roar | the North Sea | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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