Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 29

A cold wind swept over the pastor's head; he opened his eyes, and it seemed to him as if the moon was shining into his room.

Who acts: cold wind, wind, it, moon · What happens: sweep, open, seem, shine · To what, where: head, eyes, wind, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold wind, wind, it, moon), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swept	nsubj
4	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pastor	det
7	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 pastor	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swept	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 opened	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	nsubj
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swept	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opened	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swept	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 shining	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 shining	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moon	det
24	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shining	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shining	aux
26	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 seemed	xcomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 room	nmod:poss
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shining	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sweep	past	a cold wind			the pastor's head	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory
2	open	past	wind	wind's eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
3	seem	past	it		wind		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	shine a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the moon			wind's room	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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