Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 32
There was a groaning in the air, and a howling and a shrieking, and altogether it was a terrible storm.
Who acts: groaning · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groaning), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 groaning | det |
| 4 | groaning | groaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 groaning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 howling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 howling | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 howling | det |
| 11 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrieking | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shrieking | det |
| 14 | shrieking | shrieking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 howling | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 storm | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 storm | cc |
| 17 | altogether | altogether | ADP | _ | 22 storm | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 storm | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 storm | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 storm | det |
| 21 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 storm | amod |
| 22 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a groaning in the air | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | groaning | altogether a terrible storm | 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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