Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 106
"They are storm-clouds driving along beneath us," replied her mother.
Who acts: mountains, storm clouds, mother · What happens: be, drive, reply · To what, where: storm clouds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, storm clouds, mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 clouds | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clouds | cop |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clouds | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 storm | punct |
| 6 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 clouds | acl |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 driving | advmod |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 driving | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clouds | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mountains = mountain | storm clouds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | gerund | storm clouds not said here | beneath us; along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Helga's mother | vn respond-113 «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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