Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 100
From that time the sand began to fly about and the sea broke in with violence.
Who acts: sand, sea · What happens: begin, fly, break in
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand, sea), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 fly | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 broke | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 broke | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 violence | case |
| 16 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the sand | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | the sand not said here | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break in | past | the sea | with violence | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with violence=Instrument |
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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