Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 122
"It blows cold," she said, "and night brings the damp mist; I long for the land of my childhood."
Who acts: wind, queen, night · What happens: blow, say, bring · To what, where: damp mist · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, queen, night), 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 | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blows | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blows | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brings | cc |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | nsubj |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mist | det |
| 15 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mist | amod |
| 16 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 long | nsubj |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 blows | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 long | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 childhood | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 25 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 land | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | present | wind | cold, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present | night | the damp mist | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mist=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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