Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 12
He had allowed wild thoughts to chase each other in his heart, and a fierce tornado to break loose.
Who acts: Rudy, fierce tornado · What happens: allow, chase, break · To what, where: Rudy, each, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, fierce tornado), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | aux |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 allowed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chase | mark |
| 7 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 chase | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chase | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 break | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 break | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tornado | det |
| 16 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tornado | amod |
| 17 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 break | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 break | mark |
| 19 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | parataxis |
| 20 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 break | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · perfect · passive | Rudy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chase not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | each | Rudy's heart | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme in heart=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | a fierce tornado | loose property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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