Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 25
The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the wild ducks, were almost the only signs of active life at Silkborg.
Who acts: scream, wild ducks · What happens: rush, be, scream · To what, where: sluices, only signs
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 (scream, wild ducks), 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 rushing | det |
| 2 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushing | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 sluices | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sluices | det |
| 8 | sluices | sluice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rushing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 signs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 signs | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scream | det |
| 12 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 signs | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ducks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ducks | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ducks | compound |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scream | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scream | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 signs | cop |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 signs | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 signs | det |
| 21 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 signs | amod |
| 22 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rushing | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 24 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 life | amod |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 signs | nmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Silkborg | case |
| 27 | Silkborg | Silkborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 life | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 signs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | the sluices | of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the scream of the wild ducks | the only signs | of active life at Silkborg; almost property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | scream | the wild ducks | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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