Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 62

It came quite suddenly, like wind rushing through the chimneys, and seemed as if every pot and kettle were boiling over.

Who acts: staff, wind, pot · What happens: come, rush, seem, boil over · To what, where: chimneys

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staff, wind, pot), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 suddenly	advmod
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wind	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 wind	case
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wind	acl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 chimneys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chimneys	det
11	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rushing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 boiling	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 boiling	mark
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 pot	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boiling	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kettle	cc
20	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pot	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boiling	aux
22	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 seemed	xcomp
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 boiling	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	staff		like wind; suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rush	gerund	wind not said here	the chimneys		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through chimney=Trajectory
3	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	boil over a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	every pot and kettle		over property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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