Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 96
The mountain opened with a noise like the roll of thunder, and the princess went in.
Who acts: mountain, princess · What happens: open, go in, roll · To what, where: thunder
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, princess), 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 mountain | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 noise | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 roll | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roll | det |
| 9 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noise | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thunder | case |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roll | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the mountain | with a noise like the roll of thunder | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | the princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roll | thunder | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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