Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 74

It began to snow, a cold wind blew and roared as though it were seeking a bride.

Who acts: heather, cold wind · What happens: begin, blow, roar, seek · To what, where: snow, bride

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (heather, cold wind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 snow	mark
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blew	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wind	amod
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blew	nsubj
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roared	cc
11	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blew	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	11 roared	advmod
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 seeking	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seeking	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seeking	aux
16	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 roared	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bride	det
18	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	heather	snow	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Eventuality
2	blow	past	a cold wind		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	roar	past	a cold wind not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	past · progressive	heather	a bride	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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