Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 60
Then was heard the sound of rushing wings beating the air.
Who acts: sound, wings · What happens: hear, rush, beat · To what, where: sound, wings, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, wings), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux:pass |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 rushing | mark |
| 7 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sound | acl |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rushing | obj |
| 9 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 wings | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beating | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the sound | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | the sound not said here | wings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wing=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | beat | gerund | wings not said here | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location air=Theme |
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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