Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 65

"In the winter, when the fields were covered with snow, and the water filled with large blocks of ice which I had blown up to the coast," continued the Wind, "great flocks of crows and ravens, dark and black as they usually are, came and alighted on the lonely, deserted ship.

Who acts: water, fields · What happens: cover, fill, blow up, continue, be, come · To what, where: fields, ice, coast, lonely deserted ship · 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 (water, fields), 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	_	10 covered	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 covered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 continued	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 snow	case
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 filled	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	nsubj
17	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 covered	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 blocks	case
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blocks	amod
20	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 filled	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 ice	case
22	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocks	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 blown	nsubj:pass
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 blown	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 blown	aux
26	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ice	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 blown	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 coast	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 coast	det
30	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blown	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
33	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Wind	det
35	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 dark	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flocks	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 flocks	punct
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flocks	amod
39	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Wind	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 crows	case
41	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 flocks	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ravens	cc
43	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 crows	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dark	punct
45	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 continued	ccomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 black	cc
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dark	conj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 are	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 are	nsubj
50	usually	usually	ADV	_	51 are	advmod
51	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 dark	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 came	punct
53	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 continued	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 alighted	cc
55	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 came	conj
56	on	on	ADP	_	61 ship	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 ship	det
58	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 ship	amod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lonely	punct
60	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 ship	amod
61	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 alighted	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover in a quote	past · passive		the fields			winter	with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme
2	fill in a quote	participle	the water					with large blocks of ice	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with block=Instrument
3	blow up in a quote	past · perfect · passive		ice	the coast				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to coast=Recipient
4	continue	past							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	does in a quote	present	fields = field					usually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come in a quote	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	alight in a quote	participle				the lonely deserted ship			tree rules
8	desert in a quote	participle							vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: 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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