Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 112

Its sound was as thrilling as the whistle of a steam engine; in fact it was much stronger, for it sounded and was heard in the yard, in the garden, in the wood, and many miles round in the country; at the same time a storm rose and roared; "Everything in the right place."

Who acts: sound, steam engine · What happens: thrill, be, sound, hear, roar, whistle · To what, where: fact, Everything, right place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, steam engine), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sound	nmod:poss
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrilling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thrilling	aux
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 thrilling	advmod
5	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 whistle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whistle	det
8	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrilling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 engine	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 engine	det
11	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engine	compound
12	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whistle	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stronger	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 fact	case
15	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stronger	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stronger	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stronger	cop
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 stronger	advmod
19	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thrilling	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sounded	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 sounded	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sounded	nsubj
23	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stronger	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux:pass
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sounded	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 yard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 yard	det
29	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 garden	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 garden	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 garden	det
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wood	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 wood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wood	det
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 country	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 country	cc
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 miles	amod
41	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 country	nsubj
42	round	round	ADV	_	45 country	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 country	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 country	det
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wood	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 time	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 time	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 time	det
49	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 time	amod
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrilling	obl:unmarked
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 rose	det
52	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rose	compound
53	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 time	nmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 roared	cc
55	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thrilling	conj
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 Everything	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 Everything	punct
58	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	55 roared	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	62 place	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 place	det
61	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 place	amod
62	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Everything	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 Everything	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 Everything	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrill	past · progressive	flute's sound			time	as the whistle of a steam engine	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	sound		fact		strong property	tree rules
3	sound	past	sound					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	hear	past · passive	sound not said here				in the yard	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
5	roar	past	flute's sound not said here	Everything	the right place			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme
6	whistle		a steam engine					nom whistle «event 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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