Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 16
"Whir-r-r, whir-r-r!" roared the Wind, and went on, "I did not see in this house, as in other great houses, the high-born lady sitting among her women, turning the spinning-wheel.
Who acts: whir, r r, castle, born lady · What happens: r, roar, go on, not see, bear, sit · To what, where: Wind, house, spinning wheel
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 (whir, r r, castle, born lady), 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 | _ | 6 r | punct |
| 2 | Whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 r | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whir | punct |
| 4 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 r | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 r | punct |
| 6 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roared | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 r | punct |
| 8 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 r | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 whir | punct |
| 10 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 r | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 r | punct |
| 12 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 r | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 r | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 r | punct |
| 15 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wind | det |
| 17 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 roared | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 roared | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 houses | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 houses | case |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 houses | case |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 houses | amod |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 houses | amod |
| 36 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 see | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lady | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 lady | det |
| 39 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 born | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 high | punct |
| 41 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 lady | amod |
| 42 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 houses | conj |
| 43 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 lady | acl |
| 44 | among | among | ADP | _ | 46 women | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 women | nmod:poss |
| 46 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 sitting | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 turning | punct |
| 48 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 sitting | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 wheel | det |
| 50 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 wheel | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 spinning | punct |
| 52 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 turning | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | r in a quote | whir | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | roar | past | r r | the Wind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | past · do-support | castle | this house | as other great houses and the born lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute | |||
| 5 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | sit in a quote | gerund | the born lady not said here | among r's women | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among woman=Location | ||||
| 7 | turn in a quote | gerund | the born lady not said here | the spinning wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=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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