Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 40
All nature was still, and the soft, mild air fanned her forehead.
Who acts: nature, soft mild air · What happens: be, fan · To what, where: forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nature, soft mild air), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 nature | det |
| 2 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 still | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 still | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 fanned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fanned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fanned | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 soft | punct |
| 10 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fanned | nsubj |
| 12 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fanned | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all nature | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fan | past | the soft mild air | queen's forehead | 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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