Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 106
I blew the smoke and ashes into his face and beard; I moaned through the broken window-panes, and the yawning clefts in the walls; I blew into the chests and drawers belonging to his daughters, wherein lay the clothes that had become faded and threadbare, from being worn over and over again.
Who acts: I, chests, clothes · What happens: blow, moan, belong, lay, become, fade · To what, where: smoke, face, broken window panes, chests, clothes
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, chests, clothes), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smoke | det |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ashes | cc |
| 6 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smoke | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beard | cc |
| 11 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 moaned | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 moaned | nsubj |
| 14 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 panes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 panes | det |
| 17 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 panes | amod |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 panes | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 window | punct |
| 20 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moaned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 clefts | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 clefts | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clefts | det |
| 24 | yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clefts | compound |
| 25 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blew | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 walls | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 walls | det |
| 28 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 clefts | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 blew | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 blew | nsubj |
| 31 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 chests | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 chests | det |
| 34 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 blew | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drawers | cc |
| 36 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 chests | conj |
| 37 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 chests | acl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 daughters | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 40 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 belonging | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lay | punct |
| 42 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 lay | advmod |
| 43 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 blew | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 clothes | det |
| 45 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 lay | obj |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 become | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 become | aux |
| 48 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 49 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 become | xcomp |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 threadbare | cc |
| 51 | threadbare | threadbare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 faded | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 worn | punct |
| 53 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 55 worn | mark |
| 54 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 55 worn | aux:pass |
| 55 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 lay | conj |
| 56 | over | over | ADV | _ | 55 worn | advmod |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 again | cc |
| 58 | over | over | ADV | _ | 59 again | advmod |
| 59 | again | again | ADV | _ | 56 over | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | I | the smoke and ashes | skin's face and beard | the yawning clefts in the walls obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent smoke=Material into face=Product | ||
| 2 | moan | past | I | the broken window panes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pane=Location | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | I | the chests and drawers | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into chest=Product | ||||
| 4 | belong | gerund | the chests and drawers not said here | to skin's daughters | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | I not said here | the clothes | wherein property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Result | |||
| 6 | become | past · perfect | the clothes | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fade | participle | the clothes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | wear | gerund · passive | I not said here | over property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
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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