Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 40

Smooth as polished marble slabs, the waves of snow cracked and loosened themselves, and then suddenly, with the rumbling noise of distant thunder, fell like a foaming cataract into the abyss.

Who acts: snow, distant thunder · What happens: polish, crack, loosen, fall, foam, noise · To what, where: danger, abyss

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, distant thunder), 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	Smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 slabs	case
3	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 slabs	amod
4	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slabs	compound
5	slabs	slab	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smooth	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waves	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slabs	conj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 cracked	mark
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cracked	nsubj
11	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waves	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 loosened	cc
13	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cracked	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 loosened	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suddenly	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 suddenly	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 suddenly	advmod
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	1 Smooth	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noise	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 noise	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 noise	det
22	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noise	compound
23	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smooth	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 thunder	case
25	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thunder	amod
26	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noise	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 noise	parataxis
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 cataract	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cataract	det
31	foaming	foam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 cataract	amod
32	cataract	cataract	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 abyss	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 abyss	det
35	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Smooth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	polish	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	crack	past	snow			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	loosen	past	snow not said here	danger		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	fall	past			into the abyss result; like a foaming cataract	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result
5	foam	gerund				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	noise		distant thunder			nom noise «event 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/40/