Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 43
Soon after, in the middle of the night, the goblin was awoke by a terrible noise and knocking against the window shutters and the house doors, and by the sound of the watchman's horn; for a great fire had broken out, and the whole street appeared full of flames.
Who acts: terrible noise, whole street · What happens: awake, knock, break out, appear · To what, where: goblin, window shutters
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible noise, whole street), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 middle | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soon | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goblin | det |
| 12 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awoke | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awoke | aux:pass |
| 14 | awoke | awake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 noise | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 noise | det |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 noise | amod |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awoke | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knocking | cc |
| 20 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 noise | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 shutters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shutters | det |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shutters | compound |
| 24 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 knocking | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 doors | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 doors | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doors | compound |
| 28 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shutters | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sound | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sound | cc |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 sound | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sound | det |
| 33 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awoke | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 horn | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 watchman | det |
| 36 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 horn | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 watchman | case |
| 38 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sound | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 broken | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 fire | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 fire | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fire | amod |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 broken | obl |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 broken | aux |
| 45 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 awoke | parataxis |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 broken | compound:prt |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 appeared | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 appeared | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 street | det |
| 50 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 street | amod |
| 51 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 appeared | nsubj |
| 52 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 broken | conj |
| 53 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 appeared | xcomp |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 flames | case |
| 55 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 full | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past · passive | a terrible noise | the goblin | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock | gerund | a terrible noise not said here | the window shutters and the house doors | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shutter=Location | ||||
| 3 | break out | past · perfect | for a great fire | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | the whole street | full property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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