Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 182

The cold came on, the wind blue sharp, as if there were vitriol in it to wash the people's faces.

Who acts: cold, vitriol · What happens: come on, be, wash · To what, where: wind, cold, faces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, vitriol), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wind	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sharp	amod
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 were	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 were	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
15	vitriol	vitriol	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 were	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 were	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wash	mark
19	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 were	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 faces	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 people	case
23	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wash	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come on	past	the cold	the wind		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	vitriol		cold; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	wash	to-infinitive	vitriol not said here	the people's faces		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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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