Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 58

It seemed to come nearer and roar louder, till the men heard it also and listened in silence, till, at length, they told Rudy that he must not dare to sleep.

Who acts: It, men, Rudy · What happens: seem, come, roar, hear, listen, tell · To what, where: roaring, Rudy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, men, Rudy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roar	cc
7	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
8	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 roar	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 heard	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	also	also	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 listened	cc
17	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 silence	case
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 till	punct
21	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 silence	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 silence	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
28	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 told	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 dare	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dare	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 dare	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 dare	advmod
33	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 told	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sleep	mark
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dare	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	to-infinitive				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roar	present				loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	the men	roaring			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	listen	past	the men not said here			in silence and till and length	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	men = man		Rudy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rudy=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not dare not said to happen	must	Rudy				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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