Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 152

I blew coldly upon his flustered cheeks, I stroked his gray beard and his long white hair, and I sang as well as I was able, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r.

Who acts: I · What happens: blow, stroke, sing, be · To what, where: gray beard, Whir r r

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14762): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	coldly	coldly	ADV	_	2 blew	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 cheeks	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
6	flustered	flustered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cheeks	amod
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stroked	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 stroked	nsubj
10	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beard	nmod:poss
12	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beard	amod
13	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stroked	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hair	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beard	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sang	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sang	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sang	nsubj
22	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 sang	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 able	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 able	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 well	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 r	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 r	punct
31	Whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 r	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Whir	punct
33	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 r	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 r	punct
35	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sang	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 r	punct
37	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 r	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 whir	punct
39	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 r	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 r	punct
41	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 r	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	I		upon glass's flustered cheeks; coldly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stroke	past	I	glass's gray beard and glass's long white hair		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	past	I	Whir r r and whir r r	well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location r=Theme
4	is	past	I		able property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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