Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 22
I had hurried across the heath and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the island of Funen, and then I drove across the great belt, sighing and moaning.
Who acts: I, wood · What happens: hurry, girt, drive, sigh, moan · To what, where: heath, eastern coast, great belt
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, wood), 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 | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | aux |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 heath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heath | det |
| 6 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 girt | cc |
| 8 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 13 girt | mark |
| 9 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Jutland | case |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girt | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 girt | punct |
| 13 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hurried | conj |
| 14 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coast | amod |
| 15 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 island | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 island | cc |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Funen | case |
| 22 | Funen | Funen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 island | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drove | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drove | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 drove | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 drove | nsubj |
| 27 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 28 | across | across | ADP | _ | 31 belt | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 belt | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 belt | amod |
| 31 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drove | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sighing | punct |
| 33 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 drove | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 moaning | cc |
| 35 | moaning | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 sighing | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past · perfect | I | the heath | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across heath=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | girt | infinitive | Jutland's wood | eastern coast | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | I | the great belt | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across belt=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sigh | gerund | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | moan | gerund | I not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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