Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 155
It was indeed cold; but the cold soon passed, for the East Wind spread his wings, and they gleamed like the brightest fire.
Who acts: cavern, cold, East Wind, Winds · What happens: be, pass, spread, gleam · To what, where: wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavern, cold, East Wind, Winds), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cold | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | advmod |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 spread | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wind | det |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wind | compound |
| 15 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spread | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gleamed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gleamed | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gleamed | nsubj |
| 22 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 25 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 fire | amod |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gleamed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cavern | cold, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the cold | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | the East Wind | cold's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gleam | past | Winds = wind | like the brightest fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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