Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 8
The river murmured monotonously, the wind whistled, and the clouds sailed along hurriedly.
Who acts: river, wind, clouds · What happens: murmur, whistle, sail
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 (river, wind, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 murmured | nsubj |
| 3 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | monotonously | monotonously | ADV | _ | 3 murmured | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whistled | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whistled | nsubj |
| 8 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 murmured | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sailed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sailed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clouds | det |
| 12 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sailed | nsubj |
| 13 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 murmured | conj |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 sailed | advmod |
| 15 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 13 sailed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | past | the river | monotonously property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the wind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sail | past | the clouds | along, hurriedly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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