Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 50

He listened eagerly to its deep murmur and then the thought arose--"Free! free!

Who acts: snail, thought, wind · What happens: listen, arise, murmur

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 (snail, thought, wind), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	2 listened	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 murmur	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 murmur	nmod:poss
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 murmur	amod
7	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 arose	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 arose	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thought	det
11	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arose	nsubj
12	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 Free	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Free	punct
15	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 arose	xcomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 free	punct
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Free	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	snail		to wind's deep murmur; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to murmur=Theme
2	arise	past	the thought	then	free property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	murmur		wind			nom murmur «event transitive»: poss=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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