Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 131
Damp fogs came, icy winds blew, and the long, dark nights of winter approached.
Who acts: Damp fogs, icy winds, long dark nights · What happens: come, blow, approach
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 (Damp fogs, icy winds, long dark nights), 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 | Damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fogs | amod |
| 2 | fogs | fog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
| 5 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 winds | amod |
| 6 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blew | nsubj |
| 7 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 approached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 approached | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nights | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nights | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nights | amod |
| 14 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 approached | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 winter | case |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nights | nmod |
| 17 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Damp fogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blow | past | icy winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | approach | participle | the long dark nights of winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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