Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 79
The air was filled with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows, as if a storm of hail was descending upon the earth.
Who acts: storm, hail · What happens: fill, descend, hiss, storm · To what, where: air, arrows
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, hail), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 clashing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clashing | det |
| 7 | clashing | clashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clashing | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hissing | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hissing | det |
| 12 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clashing | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arrows | case |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hissing | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 descending | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 descending | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 descending | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 descending | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hail | case |
| 21 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storm | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 descending | aux |
| 23 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 filled | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 earth | det |
| 26 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 descending | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the air | with the clashing of arms and the hissing of arrows | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with clashing=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | descend | past · progressive | a storm of hail | upon the earth | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hiss | arrows | nom hissing «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | storm | hail | 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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