Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 85

The wind now blew more keenly, it was chilly and cold, and when they went back over the sand-hills, sand and little sharp stones blew into their faces.

Who acts: wind, boats · What happens: blow, be, go back · To what, where: sand hills, faces

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 (wind, boats), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chilly	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 blew	advmod
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wind	acl:relcl
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 keenly	advmod
6	keenly	keenly	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wind	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chilly	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chilly	cop
10	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cold	cc
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chilly	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chilly	parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	23 hills	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hills	det
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hills	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sand	punct
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sand	punct
25	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hills	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stones	cc
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stones	amod
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stones	amod
29	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hills	conj
30	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 faces	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 faces	nmod:poss
33	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chilly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind not said here		now	keenly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the wind			chilly property	tree rules
3	be		the wind not said here				tree rules
4	go back	past	boats = boat	the sand hills and sand and little sharp stones			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	blow	past	boats = boat not said here	boats's faces			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into face=Product

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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