Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 46

The solemn stillness that reigned around them was now and then broken by the shrill cries of the great horned owl and other birds that they knew nothing of.

Who acts: solemn stillness, shrill cries, oaks, great horned owl · What happens: reign, break, know, cry · To what, where: solemn stillness, nothing

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 (solemn stillness, shrill cries, oaks, great horned owl), 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	3 stillness	det
2	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stillness	amod
3	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reigned	nsubj
5	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stillness	acl:relcl
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reigned	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	aux:pass
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 broken	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 then	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 broken	advmod
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 cries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cries	det
15	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cries	amod
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 broken	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 owl	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 owl	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 owl	amod
20	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 owl	amod
21	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cries	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 birds	cc
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 owl	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	advcl
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 knew	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 nothing	fixed
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reign	past	the solemn stillness			around oaks = oak	tree rules
2	break	past · passive	the shrill cries of the great horned owl and other birds	the solemn stillness	now; then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
3	know	past	oaks = oak	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	cry		the great horned owl and other birds				nom cry «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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