Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 33
The wind whistled around him, and beneath him the waters of the abyss, swelled by the thawing of the glaciers, those palaces of the Ice Maiden, foamed and roared in their rapid course.
Who acts: wind · What happens: whistle, swell, foam, roar, thaw · To what, where: waters, rapid course, glaciers
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 (wind), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whistled | nsubj |
| 3 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whistled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waters | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waters | cc |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waters | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whistled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 abyss | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 abyss | det |
| 14 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waters | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swelled | punct |
| 16 | swelled | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 waters | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 thawing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thawing | det |
| 19 | thawing | thawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swelled | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 glaciers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 glaciers | det |
| 22 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thawing | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 palaces | punct |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 palaces | det |
| 25 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thawing | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Maiden | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Maiden | det |
| 28 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Maiden | compound |
| 29 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 palaces | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 foamed | punct |
| 31 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whistled | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 roared | cc |
| 33 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 foamed | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 course | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 course | nmod:poss |
| 36 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 course | amod |
| 37 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 roared | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | the wind | the waters beneath Rudy of the abyss | around Rudy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location | |||
| 2 | swell | participle | the waters beneath Rudy of the abyss not said here | by the thawing of the glaciers and that palaces of the Ice Maiden | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | foam | past | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | roar | past | palaces's rapid course | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location | |||||
| 5 | thaw | the glaciers | nom thawing «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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