Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 48
Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling like pearls, or rushing like the strong wind through the forest.
Who acts: Thoughts · What happens: rise up, fall, rush, intonate · To what, where: forest, violin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thoughts), 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 | Thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rose | compound:prt |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 tones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tones | det |
| 8 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 violin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 violin | det |
| 11 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tones | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falling | punct |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rose | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 pearls | case |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 falling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rushing | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 rushing | cc |
| 18 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 falling | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wind | amod |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushing | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | Thoughts | within poet; like the tones of the violin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | Thoughts not said here | like pearls | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | Thoughts not said here | the forest | like the strong wind | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | intonate | the violin | nom tone «communication 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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