Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 47
I blew into the thousand little throats, and quickly stopped their screaming.
Who acts: I, throats · What happens: blow, stop, scream · To what, where: thousand little throats
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 (I, throats), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 throats | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 throats | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throats | amod |
| 7 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 screaming | nsubj |
| 13 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | I | thousand little throats | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into throat=Product | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | I not said here | quickly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | throats = throat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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