Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 15
The bag has been opened, and a current of air now blows through our once confined valley.
Who acts: current · What happens: open, blow, confine · To what, where: bag, confined valley
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current), 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 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blows | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blows | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 current | det |
| 9 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blows | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 current | nmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 blows | advmod |
| 13 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 valley | nmod:poss |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 confined | advmod |
| 17 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 valley | amod |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blows | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present · perfect · passive | the bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blow | present | a current of air | our confined valley | now | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | confine | participle | once property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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