The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 4

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

What happens: growl, send, howl · To what, where: North Wind, cold, blast

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 growled	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 growled	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 growled	punct
6	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wind	det
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Wind	compound
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 growled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sent	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 sent	obl
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growled	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cold	det
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 howling	punct
18	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sent	advcl
19	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 howling	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 Traveler	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Traveler	det
22	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 howling	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	growl	past	the North Wind	well property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic
2	send	past	a cold		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
3	howl	gerund	blast	against the Traveler	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blast=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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