Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 40
"Very long indeed," sounded over the field, from the nearest snow-covered hill.
What happens: sound, cover · To what, where: field
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hill | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 14 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 hill | amod |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hill | amod |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the field | from the nearest covered hill | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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