Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 71
A storm arose; she heard the lake dashing and rolling from east and west, like the waves of the North Sea or the Cattegat.
Who acts: storm, lake · What happens: arise, hear, dash, roll, wave · To what, where: lake, North Sea
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 (storm, lake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | dashing | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lake | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rolling | cc |
| 11 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 dashing | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 east | case |
| 13 | east | east | ADV | _ | 11 rolling | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 west | cc |
| 15 | west | west | ADV | _ | 13 east | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waves | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 waves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waves | det |
| 19 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dashing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sea | det |
| 22 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sea | compound |
| 23 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 waves | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Cattegat | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Cattegat | det |
| 26 | Cattegat | Cattegat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sea | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a storm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | storm | the lake | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lake=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dash | gerund | the lake not said here | like the waves of the North Sea or the Cattegat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | the lake not said here | east property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wave | the North Sea or the Cattegat | nom wave «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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