The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 9

At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders.

Who acts: beams, cloak, Sun · What happens: be, unfasten, let, hang, beam · To what, where: cloak, pleasant warmth, shoulders

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 (beams, cloak, Sun), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 gentle	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beams	nmod:poss
4	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gentle	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	cop
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unfastened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unfastened	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 warmth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warmth	det
11	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 warmth	amod
12	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unfastened	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 cold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cold	det
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cold	amod
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warmth	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Wind	det
19	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Wind	compound
20	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cold	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Traveler	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Traveler	det
23	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Wind	conj
24	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cloak	nmod:poss
26	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unfastened	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 unfastened	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	loosely	loosely	ADV	_	30 hang	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 shoulders	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shoulders	nmod:poss
34	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hang	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gentle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sun's beams			gentle property	tree rules
2	unfasten	past		Sun's cloak	the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind and the Traveler		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
3	let	infinitive		cloak			tree rules
4	hang	infinitive	cloak not said here		Sun's shoulders	loosely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beam		Sun				nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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