Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 60
Hjalmar could hear it in his sleep; and when Ole-Luk-Oie opened the window, the water flowed quite up to the window-sill.
Who acts: Hjalmar, Ole, water · What happens: hear, open, flow, sleep · To what, where: rain, sleep, window
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar, Ole, water), 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 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 opened | advmod |
| 11 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Luk | punct |
| 13 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ole | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oie | punct |
| 15 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ole | conj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flowed | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flowed | nsubj |
| 22 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | conj |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 up | advmod |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 flowed | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 sill | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sill | det |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sill | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 window | punct |
| 29 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flowed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | Hjalmar | rain | Hjalmar's sleep | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | open | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | past | the water | to the window sill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | Hjalmar | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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