Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 7
The wind blew cold through the shed: it was nearer to the dawn than to midnight.
Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, col, be · To what, where: shed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. 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 | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | col | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blew | xcomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 shed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shed | det |
| 7 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 nearer | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nearer | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nearer | cop |
| 11 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dawn | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dawn | det |
| 14 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nearer | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 midnight | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 midnight | case |
| 17 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nearer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | col | participle | the wind not said here | the shed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wind | dawn; midnight | near property | tree rules |
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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