Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 9
I shall throw down my palaces, for the clamor is louder than the roar of thunder."
Who acts: I, clamor, thunder · What happens: throw down, be, roar · To what, where: palaces
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 (I, clamor, thunder), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 throw | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palaces | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 throw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 louder | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 louder | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clamor | det |
| 10 | clamor | clamor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 louder | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 louder | cop |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 throw | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 roar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roar | det |
| 15 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 louder | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thunder | case |
| 17 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roar | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | shall | I | my palaces | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the clamor | than the roar of thunder; loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roar | thunder | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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