Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 53
The Fire-drum and all the other drums were beating, for war had come.
Who acts: Fire drum, war · What happens: beat, come
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 (Fire drum, war), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drum | det |
| 2 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drum | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fire | punct |
| 4 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beating | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drums | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 drums | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drums | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drums | amod |
| 9 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drum | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beating | aux |
| 11 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 beating | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · progressive | the Fire drum and all other drums | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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