Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 83
Forth from the town rushed engine after engine, train after train, whistling and screaming at all hours in the day.
What happens: rush, whistle, scream · To what, where: engine, town
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: 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 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 engine | case |
| 8 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 train | punct |
| 10 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engine | conj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 train | case |
| 12 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 train | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whistling | punct |
| 14 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rushed | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 screaming | cc |
| 16 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 whistling | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 hours | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 hours | det |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 screaming | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hours | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | engine | the town | after engine and train after train | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent engine=Theme from town=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | whistle | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | hour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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