Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 1
The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a terrible tempest within the memory of the inhabitants, nor such a rough sea.
What happens: rage, have, not be · To what, where: storm, town, terrible tempest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 storm | acl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raged | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Skjagen | case |
| 8 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 town | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 had | expl |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 storm | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tempest | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 tempest | cop |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 tempest | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tempest | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tempest | amod |
| 17 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 memory | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 memory | det |
| 20 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 inhabitants | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 inhabitants | det |
| 23 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 memory | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sea | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 sea | cc |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 sea | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 28 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sea | amod |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 storm | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | participle | the storm nor such rough sea not said here | the town of Skjagen | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over town=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | there | within the memory of the inhabitants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a | participle | such terrible tempest | 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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