The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 6

But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him.

Who acts: Traveler, Wind · What happens: wrap, blow, hold · To what, where: cloak, Sun

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: who acts (Traveler, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 wrapped	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrapped	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 wrapped	advmod
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrapped	obj
6	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 wrapped	advmod
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrapped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harder	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 harder	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harder	det
12	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wrapped	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wind	det
14	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 blew	nsubj
15	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 harder	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tighter	det
18	tighter	tight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 held	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 harder	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	Traveler	cloak		around Sun; closely, immediately property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme around he=Destination
2	blow	past	the Wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	hold	past	Traveler	cloak	Sun		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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