Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 18
Presently it began to snow, and the wind blew keen and cold. "
Who acts: mist, wind · What happens: begin, blow · To what, where: snow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist, wind), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 snow | mark |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 11 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cold | cc |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keen | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | mist | snow | presently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | blow | past | the wind | keen property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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