Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 212
Then the East Wind spread his broad pinions, which shone like the lightning in harvest, or as the northern lights in a cold winter.
Who acts: East Wind, broad pinions · What happens: spread, shine · To what, where: broad pinions, harvest
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 (East Wind, broad pinions), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spread | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 3 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wind | compound |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pinions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pinions | amod |
| 8 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shone | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shone | nsubj |
| 11 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pinions | acl:relcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 lightning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lightning | det |
| 14 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 harvest | case |
| 16 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lights | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 lights | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 lights | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lights | det |
| 21 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lights | amod |
| 22 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 winter | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 winter | det |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 winter | amod |
| 26 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lights | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the East Wind | prince's broad pinions | then | as the northern lights in a cold winter | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme | ||
| 2 | shine | past | prince's broad pinions | harvest | like the lightning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in harvest=Location |
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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