Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 193

I heard them coming, and I also at the same time was conscious of a rush of air and a sound like the roar of heavy artillery.

Who acts: I, People, heavy artillery · What happens: hear, come, be, rush, roar · To what, where: People, air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, People, heavy artillery), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heard	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 conscious	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 conscious	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 conscious	nsubj
8	also	also	ADV	_	14 conscious	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conscious	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 conscious	cop
14	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 rush	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rush	det
17	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conscious	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 air	case
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rush	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sound	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rush	conj
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 roar	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roar	det
25	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 artillery	case
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 artillery	amod
28	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 roar	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	People			tree rules
2	come	gerund	People not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	I		time	of a rush of air and a sound like the roar of heavy artillery; conscious property	tree rules
4	rush			air			nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient
5	roar		heavy artillery				nom roar «event 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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