Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 134
Suddenly there came through the open window the sound of sweet music.
What happens: come · To what, where: sound, open window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 window | amod |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 music | case |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 music | amod |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound of sweet music | the open window; there | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location |
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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