Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 59

It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board.

Who acts: roaring, that, violent storm wind, asunder, we · What happens: be, wind, rush, snap, carry, move · To what, where: fohn, mountain, asunder, wooden houses, one side, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (roaring, that, violent storm wind, asunder), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fohn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fohn	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fohn	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fohn	punct
5	fohn	fohn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wind	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wind	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 wind	nsubj
9	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wind	amod
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wind	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 storm	punct
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fohn	appos
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 rushes	nsubj
14	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wind	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushes	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 valley	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 valley	det
20	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushes	obl
21	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	14 rushes	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snaps	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 snaps	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 fury	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fury	nmod:poss
26	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snaps	obl
27	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fohn	parataxis
28	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snaps	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trunks	det
30	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asunder	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 trunks	nmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	40 reeds	case
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 reeds	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 reeds	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 reeds	cop
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 reeds	cc
39	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 reeds	amod
40	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 snaps	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 carries	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 carries	cc
43	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 snaps	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 houses	det
45	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 houses	amod
46	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 carries	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 side	case
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 side	nummod
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 carries	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 river	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 river	det
52	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 side	nmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 other	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 other	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 carries	obl
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 easily	advmod
57	easily	easily	ADV	_	43 carries	advmod
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 move	mark
59	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 move	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 move	aux
61	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 carries	advcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 pieces	det
63	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 move	obj
64	on	on	ADP	_	68 board	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 board	det
66	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 board	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 chess	punct
68	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 move	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fohn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	roaring	a fohn			tree rules
2	wind		that				tree rules
3	rush	present	violent storm wind		the mountain	to the valley result; beneath property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to valley=Result
4	snap	present		asunder and the trunks of large trees		in roaring's fury	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient in fury=Topic
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	asunder			as slender reeds	tree rules
6	carry	present		the wooden houses	one side of a river	to the other; easily property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme from side=Initial_Location to other=Destination
7	move	could	we	the pieces	a chess board		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
8	infuriate		roaring				nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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