Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 18
Humid clouds were driving through the air as the hunters reached the precipitous ledge of the rock.
Who acts: Humid clouds, hunters · What happens: drive, reach · To what, where: air, precipitous ledge
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 (Humid clouds, hunters), 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 | Humid | humid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clouds | amod |
| 2 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | aux |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunters | det |
| 10 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ledge | det |
| 13 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ledge | amod |
| 14 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ledge | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | Humid clouds | the air | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the hunters | the precipitous ledge of the rock | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ledge=Theme |
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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