Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 76
The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had gone by, and there was quite a holiday glow on all things.
Who acts: refreshing wind, rain · What happens: stream down, refresh, blow, go by, be · To what, where: rain, holiday glow, things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (refreshing wind, rain), 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 | 2 rain | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rain | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 streamed | compound:prt |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 blowing | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blowing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blowing | aux |
| 10 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rain | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 rain | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 storm | det |
| 13 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 glow | csubj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 gone | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 glow | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 glow | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 glow | det |
| 23 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glow | compound |
| 24 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 things | det |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 glow | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 glow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream down | participle | the rain not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | blow | past · progressive | a refreshing wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go by | past · perfect | the rain | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | quite holiday glow | all things | tree rules |
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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