Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 174
It was inhabited, for the smoke curled up thickly from the chimneys.
What happens: inhabit, curl up · To what, where: house, smoke
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 3 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smoke | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 smoke | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 smoke | det |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inhabited | obl |
| 8 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 smoke | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 curled | compound:prt |
| 10 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 curled | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 chimneys | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chimneys | det |
| 13 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thickly | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past · passive | house | for the smoke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curl up | participle | the smoke not said here | thickly property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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