Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 42

The windows were opened to let in a little fresh air, but quicker than air came in the withered arms and the continual whining sounds, "Miserabili, eccellenza."

Who acts: continual whining · What happens: open, let, come, wither, sound · To what, where: windows, little fresh air, withered arms, Miserabili

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 (continual whining), 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 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 opened	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	aux:pass
4	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 opened	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 air	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quicker	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 quicker	cc
14	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 opened	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 air	case
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 quicker	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 arms	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 arms	det
20	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 arms	amod
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sounds	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whining	det
24	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whining	amod
25	whining	whining	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sounds	nsubj
26	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 quicker	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Miserabili	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Miserabili	punct
29	Miserabili	Miserabili	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sounds	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eccellenza	punct
31	eccellenza	eccellenza	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Miserabili	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		the windows			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	let	to-infinitive			a little fresh air		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	come	past			the withered arms	than air	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location
4	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sound	present	the continual whining	Miserabili and eccellenza			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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