Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 47

The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles inland when the wind was blowing, and then it sounded like the rushing of a thousand waggons over a hard road with a mine underneath.

Who acts: wind, it · What happens: hear, blow, sound, rush · To what, where: rolling, hard road

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rolling	det
2	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 moaning	cc
4	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolling	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sea	det
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sea	compound
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 moaning	nmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 miles	case
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl
14	inland	inland	ADV	_	19 blowing	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 blowing	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wind	det
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blowing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 blowing	aux
19	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sounded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sounded	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sounded	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sounded	nsubj
24	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	27 rushing	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rushing	det
27	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sounded	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 waggons	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thousand	det
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 waggons	nummod
31	waggons	waggon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rushing	obl
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 road	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 road	det
34	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 road	amod
35	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushing	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 mine	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mine	det
38	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushing	obl
39	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	38 mine	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could · passive		the rolling and moaning of the North Sea			for miles	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	blow	past · progressive	the wind				inland property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	sound	past	it			then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	rush	gerund			a hard road		of thousand waggons; with a mine	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of waggon=Trajectory

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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