Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 11
"The wedding guests are coming," sounded from air and sea.
Who acts: wedding guests · What happens: come, sound · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding guests), 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 | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guests | compound |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sounded | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 9 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounded | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sea | cc |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 air | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the wedding guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sound | past | air and sea | 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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