Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 49
Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose.
Who acts: feathery cloud, wind · What happens: hang, sink, increase, conceal, break · To what, where: Wetterhorn, size, fohn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathery cloud, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4041): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 Wetterhorn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wetterhorn | det |
| 3 | Wetterhorn | Wetterhorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloud | det |
| 6 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloud | amod |
| 7 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woolbag | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 woolbag | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woolbag | det |
| 11 | woolbag | woolbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloud | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cloud | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cloud | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloud | det |
| 15 | threatening | threatening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cloud | amod |
| 16 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloud | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 cloud | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 increased | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 increased | mark |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 sunk | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sunk | nsubj |
| 22 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 increased | advcl |
| 23 | lower | low | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 sunk | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 increased | nsubj |
| 25 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hung | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 size | case |
| 27 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 increased | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 concealed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 concealed | cc |
| 30 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 increased | conj |
| 31 | within | within | ADV | _ | 30 concealed | advmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 concealed | aux:pass |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 fohn | det |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 fohn | punct |
| 35 | fohn | fohn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fohn | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 fohn | punct |
| 38 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fohn | amod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 violence | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 violence | nmod:poss |
| 41 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fearful | obl |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 break | aux |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 break | nsubj |
| 44 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 fearful | advcl |
| 45 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 break | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | a feathery cloud like a woolbag and a threatening cloud | the Wetterhorn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around wetterhorn=Location | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | wind | low property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | increase | past | wind | size | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | conceal | past · passive | a fohn | within property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | break | should | wind | loose property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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