Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 45

The avalanche rolled past them at some distance; but the gust of wind that followed, like the storm-wings of the avalanche, snapped asunder the trees and bushes over which it swept, as if they had been but dry rushes, and threw them about in every direction.

Who acts: avalanche, gust, branches · What happens: roll, follow, snap, asunder, sweep, be · To what, where: storm wings, trees, branches

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 (avalanche, gust, branches), 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 avalanche	det
2	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rolled	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 followed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gust	det
12	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 followed	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wind	case
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gust	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 followed	nsubj
16	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wings	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 wings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wings	det
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wings	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 storm	punct
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 followed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 avalanche	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 avalanche	det
25	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wings	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snapped	punct
27	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	parataxis
28	asunder	asunder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 snapped	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asunder	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bushes	cc
32	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 trees	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 swept	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 swept	nsubj
36	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 trees	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rushes	punct
38	as	as	ADP	_	45 rushes	case
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 rushes	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 rushes	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 rushes	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 rushes	cop
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 rushes	cc
44	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 rushes	amod
45	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asunder	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 threw	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 threw	cc
48	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolled	parataxis
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 threw	obj
50	about	about	ADP	_	53 direction	case
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 direction	case
52	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	53 direction	det
53	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 threw	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	past	the avalanche			past branches = branch; at some distance	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Source at distance=Trajectory
2	follow	past	the gust of wind	the storm wings of the avalanche			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
3	snap	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	asunder	infinitive		the trees and bushes			tree rules
5	sweep	past	gust		the trees and bushes		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	branches = branch			as dry rushes	tree rules
7	throw	past		branches = branch		about every direction	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme about direction=Destination

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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