Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 159

Years passed; and for many summers the heath was covered with bloom; in winter the snow rested upon it, and the rough winds blew across the ridge under which stood Ib's sheltered home.

Who acts: Years, snow, rough winds, ridge · What happens: pass, cover, rest, blow, stand, shelter · To what, where: heath, ridge

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, snow, rough winds, ridge), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 covered	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 covered	cc
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 summers	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summers	amod
7	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heath	det
9	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	aux:pass
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 passed	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 bloom	case
13	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rested	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rested	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snow	det
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rested	nsubj
19	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rested	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 blew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blew	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 winds	det
25	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 winds	amod
26	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 blew	nsubj
27	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 ridge	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ridge	det
30	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blew	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ridge	acl:relcl
34	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 sheltered	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Ib	case
36	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 stood	xcomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 sheltered	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Years					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		the heath		summer	with bloom	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bloom=Theme
3	rest	past	the snow		heath	winter		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
4	blow	past	the rough winds		the ridge			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	stand	past	the ridge					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	shelter	participle	the ridge not said here				home property	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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