Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 3
It rolls and thunders with a sound that penetrates for miles into the land; and we are quite near the roaring.
Who acts: scene, sound, we · What happens: roll, thunder, penetrate, be · To what, where: land, roaring
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 (scene, sound, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rolls | nsubj |
| 2 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thunders | cc |
| 4 | thunders | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rolls | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thunders | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 penetrates | nsubj |
| 9 | penetrates | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 miles | case |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 penetrates | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 penetrates | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 roaring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roaring | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 roaring | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 roaring | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 roaring | advmod |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 roaring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roaring | det |
| 22 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rolls | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rolls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | scene | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thunder | present | scene not said here | with a sound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | penetrate | present | a sound | the land | for miles | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | present | we | the roaring | tree rules |
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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