Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 36
"There rolls another avalanche," said those in the valley.
What happens: roll, say · To what, where: avalanche, those, valley · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolls | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 rolls | expl |
| 3 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 avalanche | det |
| 5 | avalanche | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolls | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolls | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolls | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolls | parataxis |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 valley | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 valley | det |
| 12 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 those | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in a quote | present | another avalanche | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | those | the valley | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent that=Theme in valley=Manner |
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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