Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 97

The sand from the dunes was whirled up in clouds; the sea was rough, and flocks of birds flew like clouds in the storm, screaming across the sand-hills.

Who acts: sea, flocks · What happens: whirl up, be, fly, scream · To what, where: sand, clouds, storm, sand hills

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 (sea, flocks), 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 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whirled	nsubj:pass
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 dunes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dunes	det
5	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sand	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whirled	aux:pass
7	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 whirled	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 clouds	case
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whirled	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rough	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rough	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rough	cop
15	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whirled	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
18	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flew	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 birds	case
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flocks	nmod
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whirled	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 clouds	case
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flew	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 storm	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 storm	det
26	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 screaming	punct
28	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 flew	advcl
29	across	across	ADP	_	33 hills	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hills	det
31	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hills	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sand	punct
33	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 screaming	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 whirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whirl up	past · passive		the sand from the dunes	clouds		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	the sea			rough property	tree rules
3	fly	past	flocks of birds		the storm	like clouds	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Location
4	scream speech: express	gerund	flocks of birds not said here		the sand hills		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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