Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 1
The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible.
Who acts: wind, clouds, Moon · What happens: blow, fly, do, become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first 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, clouds, Moon), 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 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cold | cc |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stormy | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 11 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 12 past | advmod |
| 12 | past | past | ADV | _ | 10 flew | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 moment | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 moment | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 moment | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 did | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 did | advmod |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moon | det |
| 23 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 become | nsubj |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 did | ccomp |
| 25 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 become | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | moment | stormy property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the clouds | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the wind not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | present | the Moon | visible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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