Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 34
The sharp winds blew over the snow-covered fields.
Who acts: sharp winds · What happens: blow, cover · To what, where: covered fields
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 (sharp 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 winds | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winds | amod |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snow | punct |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fields | amod |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the sharp winds | the covered fields | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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