Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 8
They are digging passages beneath the earth, and the noise is like the reports of cannons.
Who acts: men, noise · What happens: dig, be · To what, where: passages, earth
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: who acts (men, noise), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 digging | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 digging | aux |
| 3 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 digging | obj |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 digging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reports | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reports | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 noise | det |
| 11 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reports | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reports | cop |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 reports | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reports | det |
| 15 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 digging | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cannons | case |
| 17 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reports | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 digging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present · progressive | men = man | passages | the earth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent passage=Theme beneath earth=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | the noise | like the reports; of cannons | tree rules |
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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