Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 50
Then he heard a roaring sound quite terrible enough to frighten the bravest man.
Who acts: arch · What happens: hear, roar, frighten · To what, where: roaring sound, bravest man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 5 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sound | amod |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 terrible | advmod |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sound | amod |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 terrible | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 frighten | mark |
| 11 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 terrible | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frighten | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | arch | a roaring sound | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | roar | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | frighten | to-infinitive | arch not said here | the bravest man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
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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