Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 1
One morning there sounded a rushing of storks' wings over the roof.
What happens: sound, rush · To what, where: roof
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rushing | det |
| 6 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wings | case |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 storks | case |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rushing | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | there | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | the roof | of storks's wings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of wing=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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