Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 50

During the last night there had been a sound borne on the breeze, as if there were cousins in the neighborhood.

What happens: be, bear · To what, where: sound, breeze, neighborhood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 night	advmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sound	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sound	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sound	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 breeze	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 breeze	det
13	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borne	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cousins	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	19 cousins	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 were	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cousins	cop
19	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sound	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 neighborhood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 neighborhood	det
22	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cousins	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	a sound		night		tree rules
2	bear	participle	a sound not said here	the breeze			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past		the neighborhood		as cousins	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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