Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 79
He blows up a storm--a terrible storm--that increases more and more.
Who acts: Fata, terrible storm · What happens: blow up, increase · To what, where: storm
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 (Fata, terrible 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blows | nsubj |
| 2 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 blows | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blows | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 storm | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 storm | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 storm | amod |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 storm | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 increases | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 increases | nsubj |
| 12 | increases | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 storm | acl:relcl |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 increases | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 more | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | present | Fata | a storm | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent storm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | increase | present | a terrible storm | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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