Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 103
Sand and stones blew into his face, and whirled round him; he went in the direction of the church.
Who acts: Sand, feeling · What happens: blow, whirl, go · To what, where: face, direction
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sand, feeling), 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 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stones | cc |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sand | conj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whirled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 whirled | cc |
| 10 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 blew | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 whirled | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 direction | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 direction | det |
| 18 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 church | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 direction | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Sand and stones | feeling's face | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into face=Product | ||||
| 2 | whirl | participle | Sand and stones not said here | round feeling | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | feeling | the direction of the church | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=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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