Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 35
Once more in the same year the Viking went forth, though the storms of autumn had already commenced to roar.
Who acts: Viking, autumn · What happens: go, commence, roar, storm · To what, where: storms
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 (Viking, autumn), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 went | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Viking | det |
| 8 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commenced | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 commenced | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storms | det |
| 14 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 autumn | case |
| 16 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 storms | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 commenced | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 commenced | advmod |
| 19 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 roar | mark |
| 21 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 commenced | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Viking | year | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | commence | past · perfect · passive | the storms of autumn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | roar | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | storm | autumn | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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