Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 28
Clouds hid the sun, and bleak winds were blowing.
Who acts: Clouds, bleak winds · What happens: hide, blow · To what, where: sun
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouds, bleak winds), 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 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blowing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blowing | cc |
| 7 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 winds | amod |
| 8 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blowing | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blowing | aux |
| 10 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hid | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Clouds | the sun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow | past · progressive | bleak winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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