Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 80

Then, as now, the houses were strewn among the wind-raised sand-hills--a wilderness in which the wind sports with the sand, and where the voice of the sea-gull and wild swan strikes harshly on the ear.

Who acts: voice · What happens: strewn, raise, strike · To what, where: houses, ear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 strewn	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 now	case
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 strewn	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 houses	det
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strewn	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 strewn	aux:pass
9	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	among	among	ADP	_	17 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hills	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raised	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 wind	punct
14	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hills	amod
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hills	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sand	punct
17	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strewn	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 wilderness	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wilderness	det
20	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strewn	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	25 sports	det
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sports	compound
25	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wilderness	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sand	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sand	det
28	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sports	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 strikes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 strikes	cc
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 strikes	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 voice	det
33	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 strikes	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 gull	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gull	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gull	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 sea	punct
38	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 voice	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 swan	cc
40	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 swan	amod
41	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gull	conj
42	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 strewn	parataxis
43	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	42 strikes	advmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 ear	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ear	det
46	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 strikes	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 strewn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strewn	past · passive		the houses		then	among the raised sand hills; a wilderness which wind sports with the sand obl	tree rules
2	raise	participle						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	strike	present	the voice of the sea gull and wild swan		the ear		harshly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location

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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