Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 39

The smoke drove across the scene of the conflagration, and the wind carried it away.

Who acts: smoke, wind · What happens: drive, carry away · To what, where: scene, smoke

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 scene	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scene	det
6	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 conflagration	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conflagration	det
9	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scene	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carried	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	nsubj
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 carried	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the smoke			the scene of the conflagration			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across scene=Trajectory
2	carry away	past	the wind	smoke				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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