Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 208
A keen wind from the desert would howl around you; cold rain fall on your head, and sorrow and woe be your future lot."
Who acts: keen wind, cold rain, sorrow · What happens: howl, fall, be · To what, where: head, future lot
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 (keen wind, cold rain, sorrow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 howl | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 desert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 desert | det |
| 6 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wind | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 howl | aux |
| 8 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 howl | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fall | punct |
| 12 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rain | amod |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 howl | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lot | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lot | cc |
| 20 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lot | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 woe | cc |
| 22 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sorrow | conj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lot | cop |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lot | nmod:poss |
| 25 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lot | amod |
| 26 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 howl | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 howl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | would | a keen wind from the desert | around you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | cold rain | your head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | sorrow and woe | your future lot | 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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