Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 54
"'Mid storm and wind, and pelting hail, Their efforts were of no avail.
Who acts: efforts · What happens: pelt, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (efforts), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 storm | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 storm | punct |
| 3 | Mid | mid | ADJ | _ | 4 storm | amod |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wind | cc |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storm | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hail | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hail | cc |
| 9 | pelting | pelt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hail | amod |
| 10 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storm | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 avail | punct |
| 12 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 avail | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 avail | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 avail | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 avail | det |
| 17 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storm | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pelt in a quote | gerund | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | storm's efforts | of no avail | tree rules |
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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