Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 76
The wolves howled, and the ravens screamed; while up in the sky quivered red lights like flames of fire. "
Who acts: wolves, ravens, fire · What happens: howl, scream, quiver, flame · To what, where: red lights, sky
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, ravens, fire), 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 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 howled | nsubj |
| 3 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 screamed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 screamed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ravens | det |
| 7 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 screamed | nsubj |
| 8 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 howled | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 quivered | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 quivered | mark |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 while | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quivered | obl |
| 15 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 howled | conj |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lights | amod |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quivered | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 flames | case |
| 19 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lights | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flames | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 howled | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | the wolves | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the ravens | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | quiver | past | the wolves not said here | red lights | the sky | like flames of fire | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | ||
| 4 | flame | fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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