Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 50
The hunting horn sounded, and the dogs barked.
Who acts: hunting horn, dogs · What happens: sound, bark
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 (hunting horn, dogs), 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 | 3 horn | det |
| 2 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horn | compound |
| 3 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 barked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 barked | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dogs | det |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 barked | nsubj |
| 9 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the hunting horn | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bark | past | the dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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