Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 184
And he beat a thundering roll-call on the instrument, and the Drum felt so highly honored that the parchment burst with exultation.
Who acts: father, Drum · What happens: beat, feel, honor · To what, where: thundering roll call
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Drum), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beat | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 5 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | compound |
| 6 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 roll | punct |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 instrument | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 instrument | det |
| 11 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Drum | det |
| 15 | Drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 honored | advmod |
| 18 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 19 honored | advmod |
| 19 | honored | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 felt | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 burst | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 burst | det |
| 22 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burst | compound |
| 23 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 honored | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 exultation | case |
| 25 | exultation | exultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burst | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | father | a thundering roll call | on the instrument | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent call=Instrument on instrument=Patient | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the Drum | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | honor | past | the Drum not said here | highly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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