Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 139

"Late in the autumn, when the days were short, and the mist sprinkled cold drops on the berries and the leafless branches, I came back in fresh spirits, rushed through the air, swept the sky clear, and snapped off the dry twigs, which is certainly no great labor to do, yet it must be done.

Who acts: days, mist, Gold gold, dry twigs · What happens: be, sprinkle, come back, rush, sweep, snap · To what, where: cold drops, berries, fresh spirits, air, sky, great labor

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 (days, mist, Gold gold, dry twigs), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Late	punct
2	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 short	csubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 autumn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 autumn	det
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Late	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 short	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 short	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 short	cop
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprinkled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sprinkled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mist	det
15	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprinkled	nsubj
16	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 short	parataxis
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drops	amod
18	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprinkled	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 berries	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 berries	det
21	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drops	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 branches	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 branches	det
24	leafless	leafless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 branches	amod
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 berries	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sprinkled	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 spirits	case
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spirits	amod
32	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rushed	punct
34	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 spirits	acl
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rushed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 swept	punct
39	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sky	det
41	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swept	obj
42	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swept	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 snapped	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 snapped	cc
45	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 swept	parataxis
46	off	off	ADP	_	49 twigs	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 twigs	det
48	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 twigs	amod
49	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 snapped	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 labor	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 labor	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 labor	cop
53	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	56 labor	advmod
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 labor	det
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 labor	amod
56	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 twigs	nmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 do	mark
58	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 labor	acl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 done	punct
60	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	64 done	cc
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 done	nsubj:pass
62	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 done	aux
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 done	aux:pass
64	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 short	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the days			short property	tree rules
2	sprinkle in a quote	past	the mist	cold drops	the berries and the leafless branches		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on berry=Destination
3	come back in a quote	past	Gold gold = gold		fresh spirits		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location
4	rush in a quote	participle		fresh spirits not said here	the air		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
5	sweep in a quote	past	Gold gold = gold not said here	the sky		clear property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Trajectory
6	snap in a quote	past				off the dry twigs	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off twig=Co-Patient
7	is a in a quote	present	the dry twigs	no great labor		certainly property	tree rules
8	do in a quote	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	do in a quote	must · passive		mist			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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