Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 66
The air was cold, the battle was hot; there was mist in the air, but still more gunpowder-smoke.
Who acts: air, battle, mist · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, battle, mist), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hot | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hot | cop |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 13 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mist | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smoke | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 smoke | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 smoke | amod |
| 21 | gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smoke | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 gunpowder | punct |
| 23 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the battle | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | mist in the air | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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