Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 101
I blew round the courtyard," said the Wind, "like a watchman blowing his home, but no watchman was there.
Who acts: I, Wind, watchman · What happens: blow, say, be · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wind, watchman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 courtyard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 courtyard | det |
| 5 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wind | det |
| 10 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 watchman | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 watchman | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 watchman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 watchman | det |
| 15 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Wind | appos |
| 16 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 watchman | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blowing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 there | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 watchman | det |
| 22 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 there | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | I | round the courtyard | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | a watchman not said here | meal's home | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | no watchman | there property | 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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