Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 14

The storms threw vessel after vessel on the fatal reefs; there were snow-storm and sand-storms; the sand flew up to the houses, blocking the entrances, so that people had to creep up through the chimneys; that was nothing at all remarkable here.

Who acts: storms, snow storm, sand, people, that · What happens: throw, be, fly up, block, have, creep up · To what, where: vessel, fatal reefs, entrances, chimneys, nothing, all

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 (storms, snow storm, sand, people), 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 storms	det
2	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 vessel	case
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 reefs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reefs	det
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reefs	amod
10	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 storm	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 snow	punct
16	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 were	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 storms	cc
18	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 storms	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sand	punct
20	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 storm	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sand	det
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	nsubj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 flew	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 houses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 houses	det
28	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blocking	punct
30	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 flew	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 entrances	det
32	entrances	entrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blocking	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 had	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flew	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 creep	mark
39	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 creep	compound:prt
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 chimneys	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chimneys	det
43	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 creep	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 nothing	punct
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 nothing	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 nothing	cop
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 threw	parataxis
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 nothing	nmod
50	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 all	amod
51	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 threw	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the storms	vessel	the fatal reefs; here	after vessel		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme on reef=Destination
2	be	past	snow storm and sand storms		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly up	past	the sand				to the houses result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
4	block	gerund	the sand not said here	the entrances				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Theme
5	have	past	people					tree rules
6	creep up	to-infinitive	people not said here		the chimneys			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Trajectory
7	is a	past	that	nothing	all			tree rules

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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