Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 112
The frost was very bitter, and I rushed through loop-holes and passages, over gables and roofs with keen and cutting swiftness.
Who acts: frost, I · What happens: be, rush, cut · To what, where: loop holes, swiftness
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 (frost, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frost | det |
| 2 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitter | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 bitter | advmod |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rushed | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitter | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 holes | case |
| 11 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holes | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 loop | punct |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rushed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 passages | cc |
| 15 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gables | punct |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 gables | case |
| 18 | gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holes | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 roofs | cc |
| 20 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holes | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 keen | case |
| 22 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cutting | cc |
| 24 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushed | conj |
| 25 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cutting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the frost | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | I | loop holes and passages and gables and roofs | with keen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | cut | gerund | I not said here | swiftness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swiftness=Product |
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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