Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 36

So the North Wind began to relate his adventures, whence he came, and where he had been for a whole month. "

Who acts: North Wind, hand · What happens: begin, relate, come, be, adventure · To what, where: adventures

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 (North Wind, hand), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 relate	mark
7	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 adventures	nmod:poss
9	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 relate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 adventures	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 month	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 month	cc
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 month	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 month	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 month	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 month	cop
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 month	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 month	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 month	amod
23	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 month	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 month	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the North Wind				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	relate	to-infinitive	the North Wind not said here	hand's adventures			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
3	come	past	hand			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past · perfect	hand		for a whole month		tree rules
5	adventure		hand				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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