Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 127

The forest leaves became more and more yellow, leaf after leaf fell, and the stormy winds of Autumn howled.

Who acts: forest leaves, leaf, stormy winds · What happens: become, fall, howl, wind · To what, where: Autumn

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 (forest leaves, leaf, stormy winds), 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	3 leaves	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	compound
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 became	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 yellow	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 yellow	advmod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leaf	punct
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	conj
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leaf	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 howled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 howled	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winds	det
17	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 winds	amod
18	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 howled	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Autumn	case
20	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 winds	nmod
21	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	past	the forest leaves		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	leaf		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	howl	past	the stormy winds of Autumn		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wind			Autumn	nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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