Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 27

It was the North Wind who came in, bringing with him a cold, piercing blast; large hailstones rattled on the floor, and snowflakes were scattered around in all directions.

Who acts: blaze, large hailstones · What happens: be, come in, bring, pierce, rattle, scatter around · To what, where: North Wind, large hailstones, cold, blast, floor, snowflakes

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 (blaze, large hailstones), 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	5 Wind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Wind	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wind	det
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wind	compound
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bringing	punct
10	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bringing	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bringing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 piercing	punct
16	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bringing	conj
17	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piercing	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hailstones	punct
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hailstones	amod
20	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
21	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hailstones	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rattled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scattered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scattered	cc
27	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 scattered	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 scattered	aux:pass
29	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hailstones	acl
30	around	around	ADV	_	29 scattered	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 directions	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 directions	det
33	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 scattered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	blaze	the North Wind			tree rules
2	come in	past		large hailstones			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	gerund		a cold		with king	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
4	pierce	gerund		blast			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
5	rattle	participle		large hailstones not said here	the floor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
6	scatter around	past · passive	large hailstones not said here	snowflakes	all directions	around property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in direction=Destination

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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