Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 40
Presently the scream of an eagle sounded through the wood; it was an ugly cry, and it frightened the children; but before them, in the thickest part of the forest, grew the most beautiful blackberries, in wonderful quantities.
Who acts: scream, cry, eagle · What happens: sound, be, frighten, grow, scream · To what, where: eagle, wood, ugly cry, children, beautiful blackberries, wonderful quantities
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, cry, eagle), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 scream | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 scream | det |
| 3 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scream | nmod |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eagle | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cry | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cry | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cry | det |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cry | amod |
| 16 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frightened | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 frightened | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 frightened | nsubj |
| 20 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cry | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 frightened | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 them | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 them | cc |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cry | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 part | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 part | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 part | det |
| 30 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 part | amod |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cry | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 forest | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forest | det |
| 34 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 part | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cry | punct |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 blackberries | det |
| 38 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 39 beautiful | advmod |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 blackberries | amod |
| 40 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grew | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 quantities | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 quantities | case |
| 43 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 quantities | amod |
| 44 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grew | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle | a eagle not said here | the wood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | scream | a ugly cry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | frighten | past | cry | the children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the scream of a eagle | the beautiful blackberries | wonderful quantities | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blackberry=Theme | |||
| 5 | scream | a eagle | 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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