Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 1
From the mountain-path came a joyous sound of some person whistling, and it betokened good humor and undaunted courage.
Who acts: person, sound · What happens: come, whistle, betoken · To what, where: joyous sound, mountain path, good humor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, sound), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 path | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 path | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mountain | punct |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 8 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 person | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 betokened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 betokened | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 betokened | nsubj |
| 17 | betokened | betoken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 humor | amod |
| 19 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 betokened | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 courage | cc |
| 21 | undaunted | undaunted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 courage | amod |
| 22 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 humor | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a joyous sound of some person | the mountain path | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whistle | gerund | some person not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | betoken | past | sound | good humor and undaunted courage | tree rules |
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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