Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 10
About the same time sounded the clang of the warriors' trumpets across the heath.
Who acts: same time · What happens: sound, clang · To what, where: clang, trumpets
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: who acts (same time), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 5 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounded | nsubj |
| 5 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clang | det |
| 7 | clang | clang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounded | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trumpets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warriors | det |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trumpets | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 warriors | case |
| 12 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clang | nmod |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 heath | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heath | det |
| 15 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trumpets | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the same time | the clang of the warriors's trumpets across the heath | about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clang=Theme | |||
| 2 | clang | the warriors's trumpets across the heath | nom clang «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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