Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 2
This is just the kind of wind to blow life into one.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, blow · To what, where: kind, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 blow | mark |
| 9 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | acl |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 blow | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the kind | of wind | tree rules | |||
| 2 | blow | to-infinitive | life | into one | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent life=Material into one=Product |
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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