Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 102

I twirled the weather-cock round on the summit of the tower, and it creaked like the snoring of a warder, but no warder was there; nothing but mice and rats.

Who acts: I, round, warder · What happens: twirl, creak, be, snore · To what, where: cock round, summit

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, round, warder), 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 twirled	nsubj
2	twirled	twirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 round	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cock	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 weather	punct
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 round	compound
7	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twirled	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 summit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summit	det
10	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twirled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tower	det
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 summit	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 creaked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 creaked	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 creaked	nsubj
17	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 twirled	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 snoring	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 snoring	det
20	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 creaked	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 warder	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 warder	det
23	warder	warder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snoring	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 there	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 there	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 warder	det
27	warder	warder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 there	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 creaked	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 nothing	punct
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 twirled	parataxis
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 mice	cc
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 nothing	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rats	cc
35	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 mice	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 twirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	twirl	past	I	the cock round	the summit of the tower		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent round=Material
2	creak	past	round			like the snoring of a warder	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	no warder			there property	tree rules
4	snore		a warder				nom snoring «act intransitive»: of=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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