Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 96

Quicker, however, than the breeze, the withered, sallow arms of the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine of “Miserabili, miserabili, excellenza!”

Who acts: Quicker, Miserabili · What happens: wither, be, accompany, whine · To what, where: thrust

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 (Quicker, Miserabili), 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	Quicker	Quicker	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Quicker	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	18 thrust	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 breeze	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breeze	det
7	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 breeze	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arms	det
10	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arms	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 withered	punct
12	sallow	sallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arms	amod
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thrust	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 beggars	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beggars	det
16	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arms	nmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thrust	cop
18	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 thrust	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 accompanied	punct
21	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 thrust	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 whine	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whine	det
24	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whine	amod
25	whine	whine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accompanied	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Miserabili	case
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Miserabili	punct
28	Miserabili	Miserabili	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 whine	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 miserabili	punct
30	miserabili	miserabili	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whine	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 excellenza	punct
32	excellenza	excellenza	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whine	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 accompanied	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	Quicker	thrust	than the breeze; however property	tree rules
3	accompany	participle		thrust not said here	by the eternal whine of Miserabili and miserabili and excellenza	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by whine=Destination
4	whine		Miserabili			nom whine «communication 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: «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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