Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 47
The cold wind blew over the bowed backs of the willows, so that they creaked again.
Who acts: cold wind, willows · What happens: blow, bow, creak · To what, where: bowed backs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold wind, willows), 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 | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 backs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 backs | det |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 backs | amod |
| 8 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 willows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 willows | det |
| 11 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 backs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creaked | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 creaked | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 creaked | nsubj |
| 16 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 creaked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the cold wind | the bowed backs of the willows | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bow | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | creak | past | willows = willow | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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