Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 127

Then, as winter approached, the wind caught them as they fell and whirled them in the cold air.

Who acts: winter, wind, leaves · What happens: approach, catch, fall, whirl · To what, where: leaves, cold air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, wind, leaves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 caught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 approached	mark
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approached	nsubj
5	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 approached	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	nsubj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caught	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whirled	cc
15	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whirled	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
19	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whirled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	approach	past	winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the wind	leaves = leaf		then	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	fall	past	leaves = leaf				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	whirl	past	leaves = leaf not said here	leaves = leaf	the cold air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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