Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 90
Such was the dream of the old oak: and while he dreamed, a mighty storm came rushing over land and sea, at the holy Christmas time.
Who acts: Such, mighty storm · What happens: be, dream, come, rush · To what, where: dream, land
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 (Such, mighty storm), 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 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 oak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oak | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dream | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreamed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dreamed | cc |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 dreamed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dreamed | nsubj |
| 13 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 storm | det |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 storm | amod |
| 17 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dreamed | conj |
| 19 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushing | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sea | cc |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 land | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 27 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 28 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 time | compound |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Such | the dream | of the old oak | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dream | past | Such | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a mighty storm | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rush | gerund | a mighty storm not said here | land and sea | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |
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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