Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 56

The weather became fearful; flash after flash lighted up the mountains of Jura, Savoy, and Switzerland, while peals of thunder, that lasted for many minutes, rolled over her head.

Who acts: weather, peals, thunder · What happens: become, light up, last, roll, peal · To what, where: flash, many minutes, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, peals, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 lighted	punct
6	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lighted	nsubj:pass
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 flash	case
8	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flash	nmod
9	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 became	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 lighted	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lighted	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Jura	case
14	Jura	Jura	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mountains	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Savoy	punct
16	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Jura	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Switzerland	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Switzerland	cc
19	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lighted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lasted	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 lasted	mark
22	peals	peal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lasted	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 thunder	case
24	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peals	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lasted	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lasted	nsubj
27	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lighted	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 minutes	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 minutes	amod
30	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lasted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 minutes	acl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rolled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the weather				fearful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	light up	participle · passive		flash after flash			Switzerland obl	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary mountain=Product
3	last	past	peals of thunder			minute		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	roll	participle		many minutes not said here	weather's head			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory
5	peal		thunder					nom peal «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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