Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 78
The wind is blowing his trumpet too--blowing it harder and harder.
Who acts: wind · What happens: blow · To what, where: trumpet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blowing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blowing | aux |
| 4 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trumpet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blowing | obj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 blowing | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 blowing | punct |
| 9 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 blowing | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 blowing | obj |
| 11 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 blowing | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 harder | cc |
| 13 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 harder | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present · progressive | the wind | Fata's trumpet | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the wind not said here | trumpet | hard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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