Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 25
The wind had blown the planks, but the storm was over.
Who acts: storm · What happens: blow, be · To what, where: wind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blown | aux |
| 4 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 planks | det |
| 6 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blown | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 over | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 over | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 over | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 over | cop |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 blown | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · perfect · passive | the wind | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary plank=Product | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the storm | over property | 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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