Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 20

At a little distance from the edge could be heard the sound of the roaring, foaming waters in the yawning abyss beneath them.

What happens: hear, foam, yawn · To what, where: sound, waters, yawning abyss

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 distance	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 roaring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roaring	det
15	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 foaming	punct
17	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 foaming	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 abyss	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 abyss	det
21	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 abyss	amod
22	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foaming	obl
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 abyss	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could · passive	the sound of the roaring		at a little distance from the edge	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus
2	foam	gerund	waters	the yawning abyss beneath Waters		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
3	yawn	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP 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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