Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 244
A clap of thunder, loud and awful, resounded through the trembling air.
What happens: resound, tremble, clap · To what, where: trembling air, thunder
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clap | det |
| 2 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loud | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thunder | case |
| 4 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clap | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loud | punct |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 awful | cc |
| 8 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loud | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resounded | punct |
| 10 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 loud | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resounded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | participle | the trembling air | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | clap | thunder | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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