Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 94

The moon had risen, and it was light enough to make the surrounding objects visible to those who could open their eyes in the blinding clouds of sand; the violence of the wind was terrible, and it was only possible to pass among the sand-hills if one crept forward between the gusts; the salt spray flew up from the sea like down, and the ocean foamed like a roaring cataract towards the beach.

Who acts: moon, surrounding, violence, it, one, salt spray · What happens: rise, be, make, object, open, pass · To what, where: moon, eyes, blinding clouds, sand hills, gusts, sea

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 (moon, surrounding, violence, it), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 risen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 risen	aux
4	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 light	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 light	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 light	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 light	cop
9	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 risen	parataxis
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 light	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 light	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 surrounding	det
14	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 objects	nsubj
15	objects	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 make	ccomp
16	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 objects	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 visible	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 open	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 open	aux
21	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 those	acl:relcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 open	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 clouds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clouds	det
26	blinding	blinding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clouds	compound
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 open	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sand	case
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clouds	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 terrible	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 violence	det
32	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 terrible	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wind	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wind	det
35	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 violence	nmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 terrible	cop
37	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 risen	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 possible	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 possible	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 possible	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 possible	cop
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 possible	advmod
43	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 terrible	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 pass	mark
45	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 possible	csubj
46	among	among	ADP	_	50 hills	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hills	det
48	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hills	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 sand	punct
50	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pass	obl
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 crept	mark
52	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 crept	nsubj
53	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 pass	advcl
54	forward	forward	ADV	_	53 crept	advmod
55	between	between	ADP	_	57 gusts	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 gusts	det
57	gusts	gust	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 crept	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 flew	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spray	det
60	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 spray	compound
61	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 flew	nsubj
62	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 risen	parataxis
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 flew	compound:prt
64	from	from	ADP	_	66 sea	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 sea	det
66	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 flew	obl
67	like	like	ADP	_	68 down	case
68	down	down	ADV	_	62 flew	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 foamed	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 foamed	cc
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 ocean	det
72	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 foamed	nsubj
73	foamed	foam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 flew	conj
74	like	like	ADP	_	77 cataract	case
75	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 cataract	det
76	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	77 cataract	amod
77	cataract	cataract	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 foamed	obl
78	towards	towards	ADP	_	80 beach	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 beach	det
80	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 foamed	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect · passive		the moon			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	moon			enough, light property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	moon not said here				tree rules
4	object speech: other	present	the surrounding			visible property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	could		people's eyes	the blinding clouds of sand		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in cloud=Location
6	is	past	the violence of the wind			terrible property	tree rules
7	is	past	it			possible property	tree rules
8	pass	to-infinitive			the sand hills		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among hill=Location
9	creep a condition, not said to happen	past	one		the gusts	forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between gust=Trajectory
10	fly up	past	the salt spray		the sea		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory
11	foam	participle	the ocean		the beach	like a roaring cataract	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards beach=Location
12	roar	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	cloud			sand			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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