Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 6

In the woods could be heard the sound of the axe and the heavy fall of the trunks of the trees, as they rolled down the slopes of the mountains.

Who acts: clouds · What happens: hear, roll down · To what, where: sound, woods, slopes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 woods	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woods	det
3	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obl
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 axe	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 axe	det
11	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fall	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fall	det
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fall	amod
15	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 axe	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 trunks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunks	det
18	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fall	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 trees	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trees	det
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trunks	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rolled	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 rolled	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rolled	nsubj
25	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 rolled	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 slopes	det
28	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rolled	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 mountains	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mountains	det
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slopes	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could · passive		the sound of the axe and the heavy fall of the trunks of the trees		the woods			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus
2	roll down	past	clouds = cloud	the slopes of the mountains					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slope=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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