Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 134
His coat was powdered with ashes, and there were ashes in his beard and in his tangled hair.
Who acts: ashes · What happens: powder, be · To what, where: coat
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 (ashes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 powdered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 powdered | aux:pass |
| 4 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ashes | case |
| 6 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 powdered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 were | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 powdered | parataxis |
| 11 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 beard | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ashes | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hair | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tangled | tangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beard | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 powdered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | powder | past · passive | fire's coat | with ashes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ash=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | ashes in fire's beard and fire's tangled hair | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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