Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 181
The air in the room was heavy and stifling, no light was burning, and from one corner came sounds of moaning and sighing.
Who acts: air, light, sounds · What happens: be, stifle, burn, come, moan, sigh · To what, where: sounds, one corner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, light, sounds), 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 | 2 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 air | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heavy | cop |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stifling | cc |
| 9 | stifling | stifle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heavy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burning | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burning | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 burning | aux |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heavy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 corner | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 corner | nummod |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heavy | parataxis |
| 21 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 moaning | mark |
| 23 | moaning | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 sounds | acl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sighing | cc |
| 25 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 moaning | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air in the room | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stifle | gerund | the air in the room not said here | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | no light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | sounds | one corner | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | moan | gerund | sounds not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sigh | gerund | sounds not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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