Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 17
Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above.
Who acts: Waters · What happens: roar, fall · To what, where: cascades
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 (Waters), 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 | Waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roared | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roared | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cascades | case |
| 9 | cascades | cascade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 above | case |
| 11 | above | above | ADV | _ | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Waters | beneath stones = stone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath they=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Waters not said here | cascades | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cascade=Location |
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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