Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 210

The air was heavy and dark; there were no blossoms on the heath; the autumn winds whirled the yellow leaves towards the boatman's hut, in which strangers dwelt; but the little farm stood safely sheltered beneath the tall trees and the high ridge.

Who acts: air, blossoms, autumn winds, strangers, little farm · What happens: be, whirl, dwell, stand, shelter · To what, where: yellow leaves, hut, tall trees

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 (air, blossoms, autumn winds, strangers), 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 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dark	cc
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heavy	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 blossoms	det
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 heath	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heath	det
14	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blossoms	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 whirled	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winds	det
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 winds	compound
18	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 whirled	nsubj
19	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaves	amod
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 whirled	obj
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 hut	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boatman	det
25	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hut	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 boatman	case
27	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whirled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dwelt	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 dwelt	obl
31	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dwelt	nsubj
32	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 whirled	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 stood	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 farm	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 farm	amod
37	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	conj
39	safely	safely	ADV	_	38 stood	advmod
40	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 stood	xcomp
41	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	44 trees	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
43	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 trees	amod
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sheltered	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ridge	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ridge	det
47	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ridge	amod
48	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trees	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the air			heavy property	tree rules
2	be		the air not said here				tree rules
3	be	past	no blossoms on the heath		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	whirl	past	the autumn winds	the yellow leaves	the boatman's hut		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme towards hut=Destination
5	dwell	past	strangers				vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
6	stand	past	the little farm			safely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	shelter	participle	the little farm not said here		the tall trees and the high ridge		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location

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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