Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 81

A gust of wind rushed between the hills, hurling the particles of sand high into the air; another gust, and the strings of fish hung up to dry flapped and beat violently against the walls of the cottage; then everything was quiet once more, and the sun shone with renewed heat.

Who acts: everything · What happens: rush, hurl, hang up, dry, flap, beat · To what, where: gust, hills, particles, air, strings, walls

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 (everything), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gust	det
2	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wind	case
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gust	nmod
5	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gust	acl
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rushed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hurling	punct
10	hurling	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rushed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 particles	det
12	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurling	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sand	case
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 particles	nmod
15	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hurling	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurling	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gust	punct
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 gust	det
21	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gust	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strings	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strings	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 strings	det
25	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gust	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fish	case
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strings	nmod
28	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 strings	acl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 hung	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	31 dry	mark
31	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hung	advcl
32	flapped	flap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 dry	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 beat	cc
34	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 flapped	conj
35	violently	violently	ADV	_	34 beat	advmod
36	against	against	ADP	_	38 walls	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 walls	det
38	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 beat	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 cottage	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cottage	det
41	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 walls	nmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 quiet	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 quiet	advmod
44	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	46 quiet	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 quiet	cop
46	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gust	parataxis
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 more	advmod
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 quiet	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sun	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sun	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sun	det
52	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 quiet	conj
53	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 sun	acl
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 heat	case
55	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 heat	amod
56	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 shone	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	participle		a gust of wind and another gust not said here	the hills			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between hill=Trajectory
2	hurl	gerund		the particles of sand	the air		high property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent particle=Theme into air=Destination
3	hang up	participle		the strings of fish not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dry	to-infinitive						tree rules
5	flap	participle						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	beat	infinitive			the walls of the cottage		violently property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location
7	is	past	everything			then	quiet property	tree rules
8	shine	participle		the sun not said here			with renewed heat	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme
9	renew	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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