Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 86
The storm reads out the accusation and the sentence, roaming in the air over moor and heath, and over the rolling waters.
Who acts: storm · What happens: read out, roam, roll · To what, where: accusation, air
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 reads | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 accusation | det |
| 6 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sentence | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sentence | det |
| 9 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accusation | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 roaming | punct |
| 11 | roaming | roam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reads | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roaming | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 moor | case |
| 16 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roaming | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heath | cc |
| 18 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moor | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waters | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 waters | cc |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 waters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waters | det |
| 23 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 waters | amod |
| 24 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roaming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read out | present | the storm | the accusation and the sentence | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Topic | ||||
| 2 | roam | gerund | the storm not said here | the air | over moor and heath; over the rolling waters | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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