Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 27
Already the storms were singing, "Good-night, good-night."
Who acts: storms · What happens: sing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 5 singing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 storms | det |
| 3 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 singing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 singing | aux |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 night | punct |
| 8 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Good | punct |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 singing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the storms | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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