Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 52

Weeks passed by in this way, two whole months, and then at length a fair wind blew from the south-west.

Who acts: way, fair wind · What happens: pass, blow · To what, where: Weeks, length

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, fair wind), 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	Weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj:pass
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 months	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 months	nummod
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 months	amod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blew	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 blew	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wind	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	nsubj
19	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 west	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 west	det
22	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 west	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 south	punct
24	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle · passive	this way and two whole months	Weeks					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
2	blow	past	a fair wind			length	then	from the south west	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from west=Co-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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