Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 75
No bronze cannon can sound over the land at the birth of a royal child as the thunder sounded at the death of the old oak.
Who acts: bronze cannon, thunder, old oak · What happens: sound, die · To what, where: land, death
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bronze cannon, thunder, old oak), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 cannon | det |
| 2 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cannon | compound |
| 3 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sound | aux |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 birth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birth | det |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birth | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 sounded | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thunder | det |
| 18 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sounded | nsubj |
| 19 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sound | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 death | det |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sounded | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 oak | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 oak | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oak | amod |
| 26 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | can | no bronze cannon | the land | at the birth of a royal child | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location | |||
| 2 | sound | past | the thunder | the death of the old oak | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at death=Location | ||||
| 3 | die | the old oak | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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