Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 61

I heard it all," said the Wind, "for I accompanied the gentlemen through the open door of the stable, and strewed stalks of straw, like bars of gold, at their feet.

Who acts: I, Wind · What happens: hear, say, accompany, strew · To what, where: admiral, gentlemen, open door, stalks · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Wind), 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	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wind	det
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 accompanied	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 accompanied	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 accompanied	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 accompanied	nsubj
14	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gentlemen	det
16	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 accompanied	obj
17	through	through	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 door	amod
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 accompanied	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 stable	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stable	det
23	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 strewed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strewed	cc
26	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
27	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 strewed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 straw	case
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stalks	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bars	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 bars	case
32	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 strewed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 gold	case
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bars	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 feet	punct
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 strewed	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	admiral			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wind				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	accompany	past	I	the gentlemen	the open door of the stable		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme through door=Destination
4	strew	past		stalks of straw		like bars of gold	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stalk=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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