Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 142
I rattled the broken windows, beat against the old rotten doors, and whistled through cracks and crevices, so that Mr. Owe Ramel did not much like to remain there.
Who acts: I, broken windows, Owe · What happens: rattle, break, beat, whistle, like, remain · To what, where: broken windows, old rotten doors, cracks
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, broken windows, Owe), 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 rattled | nsubj |
| 2 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 windows | det |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 windows | amod |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rattled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 windows | acl:relcl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 doors | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doors | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 doors | amod |
| 11 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 doors | amod |
| 12 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whistled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whistled | cc |
| 15 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rattled | parataxis |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 cracks | case |
| 17 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 whistled | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crevices | cc |
| 19 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cracks | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 like | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 like | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Owe | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Owe | Owe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 like | nsubj |
| 25 | Ramel | Ramel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Owe | flat |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 like | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 like | advmod |
| 29 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 whistled | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 remain | mark |
| 31 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 like | xcomp |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 remain | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rattled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | past | I | the broken windows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | beat | present | the broken windows not said here | the old rotten doors | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against door=Location | ||||
| 4 | whistle | participle | cracks and crevices | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crack=Location | |||||
| 5 | like | past · do-support | Owe Mr. | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Owe Mr. not said here | 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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