Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 55

But the roaring cannons did not awake Holger Danske, for they meant only "Good morning," and "Thank you."

Who acts: roaring cannons, cannons · What happens: not awake, mean, thank · To what, where: Holger, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roaring cannons, cannons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 awake	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cannons	det
3	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cannons	compound
4	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 awake	advmod
7	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 awake	obj
9	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Holger	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 meant	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meant	nsubj
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	advcl
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 morning	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 morning	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meant	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 morning	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 morning	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Thank	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Thank	punct
22	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 meant	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 Thank	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not awake	past · do-support	the roaring cannons	Holger			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holger=Theme
2	mean	past	cannons = cannon			morning	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	cannons = cannon not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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