Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 129
A gust of wind swept through the foliage, and the leaves fell in a shower.
Who acts: gust · What happens: sweep, fall · To what, where: wind, foliage, shower
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 (gust), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gust | det |
| 2 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wind | case |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gust | nmod |
| 5 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wind | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 foliage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foliage | det |
| 8 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shower | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shower | det |
| 16 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | participle | wind not said here | the foliage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foliage=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a gust of wind | a shower | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |
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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