Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 27

The drifting snow-shower fell like a veil between them, the wind whistled, and behind him he could hear the maiden laughing and singing, and the sound was most strange to hear.

Who acts: drifting snow shower, wind, shower, maiden, sound · What happens: drift, fall, whistle, hear, laugh, sing · To what, where: maiden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drifting snow shower, wind, shower, maiden), 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	5 shower	det
2	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shower	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 veil	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 veil	det
9	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 veil	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whistled	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whistled	nsubj
15	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hear	cc
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 whistled	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obj
25	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 hear	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 singing	cc
27	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 laughing	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 strange	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 strange	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sound	det
31	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 strange	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 strange	cop
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 strange	advmod
34	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hear	mark
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 strange	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drift	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the drifting snow shower		like a veil between fingers	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whistle	past	the wind			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	could	shower	the maiden	behind wind	tree rules
5	laugh	gerund	the maiden not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	gerund	the maiden not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the sound		strange property	tree rules
8	hear	to-infinitive	the sound not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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