Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 11

He began to feel quite faint, when he heard a most singular rushing noise, and saw before him a large cave, from which came a blaze of light.

Who acts: prince, light · What happens: begin, feel, hear, rush, see, come · To what, where: singular rushing noise, large cave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, light), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 feel	mark
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 faint	advmod
6	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 noise	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 singular	advmod
13	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 noise	amod
14	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 noise	amod
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cave	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cave	amod
23	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 blaze	det
29	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 light	case
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blaze	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	prince				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	prince not said here			faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	hear	past	prince	a singular rushing noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
4	rush	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past		a large cave	before prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus
6	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	blaze		light				nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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