Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 75
The sound came nearer and nearer, she heard the dogs barking, and fled with terror into the cave.
Who acts: sound, dogs · What happens: come, hear, bark, flee · To what, where: dogs, cave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (sound, dogs), 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 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nearer | cc |
| 6 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 nearer | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 heard | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 terror | case |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | sound | the dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | the dogs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | flee | past | sound not said here | the cave | with terror | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location |
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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