Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 10
Suddenly he heard the sound of a drum and fifes, and then a blazing light from torches shone upon him.
Who acts: moon · What happens: hear, blaze, shine · To what, where: sound, torches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 drum | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drum | det |
| 8 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fifes | cc |
| 10 | fifes | fife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drum | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 light | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 light | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 torches | case |
| 18 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 torches | acl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shone | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | moon | the sound of a drum and fifes | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shine | participle | torches not said here | upon moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
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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