Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 41
The dashing of the water against the bulwarks of a neighboring castle could plainly be heard.
What happens: neighbor, hear · To what, where: dashing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dashing | det |
| 2 | dashing | dashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dashing | nmod |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 bulwarks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bulwarks | det |
| 8 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 water | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bulwarks | nmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 14 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | could · passive | the dashing of the water against the bulwarks of a neighboring castle | plainly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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