Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 2
The wind still blew cold; but from bush and tree, field and flower, came the welcome sound, "Spring is come."
Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, come · To what, where: welcome sound, bush, Spring
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 blew | advmod |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blew | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tree | cc |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bush | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 field | punct |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bush | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flower | cc |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 field | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bush | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 19 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sound | amod |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 23 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux:pass |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 came | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | still | cold property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the welcome sound | bush and tree and field and flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · passive | Spring | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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