Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 88

The fisherman's little cottage was on the very margin, and the sand rattled against the window panes; every now and then a violent gust of wind shook the house to its foundation.

Who acts: little cottage, violent gust · What happens: be, rattle, shake · To what, where: margin, sand, window panes, house, foundation

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 (little cottage, violent gust), 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 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cottage	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fisherman	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cottage	amod
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 margin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 margin	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 margin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 margin	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 margin	advmod
10	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sand	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sand	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sand	det
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 margin	conj
15	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sand	acl
16	against	against	ADP	_	19 panes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 panes	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 panes	compound
19	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rattled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 shook	punct
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 gust	det
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gust	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gust	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gust	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gust	det
26	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gust	amod
27	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shook	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wind	case
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gust	nmod
30	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 margin	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shook	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 foundation	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 foundation	nmod:poss
35	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shook	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 margin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the fisherman's little cottage		the margin and the sand	tree rules
2	rattle	participle		the sand not said here	the window panes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pane=Location
3	shake	past	every violent gust of wind	the house	wind's foundation	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme to foundation=Trajectory

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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