Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 4
During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the rolling avalance, or are piled up in shining glaciers.
Who acts: accumulations · What happens: thaw, fall, roll, pile up, shine · To what, where: rolling avalance, glaciers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accumulations), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thaw | obl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 accumulations | det |
| 5 | accumulations | accumulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thaw | nsubj |
| 6 | thaw | thaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 fall | cc |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thaw | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 avalance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 avalance | det |
| 11 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 avalance | amod |
| 12 | avalance | avalance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piled | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 piled | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 piled | aux:pass |
| 16 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thaw | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 piled | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 shining | mark |
| 19 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 piled | advcl |
| 20 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shining | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thaw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thaw | present | this accumulations | year | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | this accumulations not said here | the rolling avalance | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in avalance=Location | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pile up | present · passive | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination» | ||||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | glaciers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glacier=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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