Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 35
His thoughts were like a loose thread fluttering to and fro in the wind.
Who acts: thoughts, loose thread, Knud · What happens: be, flutter, fro, think · To what, where: wind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (thoughts, loose thread, Knud), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thread | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thread | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 thread | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thread | det |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thread | amod |
| 7 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thread | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fluttering | fixed |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fro | cc |
| 11 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fluttering | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fro | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Knud's thoughts | like a loose thread | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flutter | gerund | a loose thread not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | a loose thread not said here | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think | Knud | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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