Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 165
So they went to live in the mud hut in the open field, and I wandered away, over moor and meadow, through bare bushes and leafless forests, to the open sea, to the broad shores in other lands, 'Whir-r-r, whir-r-r!
Who acts: walls, I, Whir · What happens: go, live, wander away, r · To what, where: mud hut, moor
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 (walls, I, Whir), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 8 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hut | compound |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 field | amod |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hut | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wandered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wandered | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wandered | nsubj |
| 17 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 wandered | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moor | punct |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 moor | case |
| 21 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wandered | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meadow | cc |
| 23 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moor | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bushes | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 bushes | case |
| 26 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bushes | amod |
| 27 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wandered | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forests | cc |
| 29 | leafless | leafless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 forests | amod |
| 30 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bushes | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sea | punct |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sea | det |
| 34 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sea | amod |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wandered | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shores | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 shores | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 shores | det |
| 39 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 shores | amod |
| 40 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wandered | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 lands | case |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 lands | amod |
| 43 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 shores | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 r | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 r | punct |
| 46 | Whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 r | nsubj |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Whir | punct |
| 48 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 r | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 r | punct |
| 50 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lands | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 r | punct |
| 52 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 r | nsubj |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 whir | punct |
| 54 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 r | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 56 r | punct |
| 56 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 r | conj |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | walls = wall | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | walls = wall not said here | the mud hut in the open field | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | ||||
| 3 | wander away | past | I | moor and meadow | through bare bushes and leafless forests; to the broad shores in other lands and r r and r r; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 4 | r | Whir | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | r | whir | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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