Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 61

Their skeletons rattled in every breeze, so that the terrified birds never dared to venture into the garden.

Who acts: skeletons, terrified birds · What happens: rattle, not dare, not venture · To what, where: breeze, garden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skeletons, terrified birds), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skeletons	nmod:poss
2	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rattled	nsubj
3	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 breeze	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 breeze	det
6	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rattled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dared	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 dared	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
11	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dared	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 dared	advmod
14	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rattled	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 venture	mark
16	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dared	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 venture	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	rattle	participle	trees's skeletons	every breeze	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breeze=Location
2	not dare	past	the terrified birds		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not venture	to-infinitive	the terrified birds not said here	the garden	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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