Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 2

The wind blew from the south across the mountains; it was an African wind, a wind which scattered the clouds for a moment, and then suddenly fell.

Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, be, scatter, fall · To what, where: African wind, clouds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. 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	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 south	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 south	det
6	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountains	det
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wind	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wind	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wind	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wind	det
14	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wind	amod
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wind	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wind	conj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 scattered	nsubj
20	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wind	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clouds	det
22	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 scattered	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 moment	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 scattered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fell	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 fell	advmod
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	30 fell	advmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind			across the mountains; from the south	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from south=Co-Patient
2	is a	past	wind	a African wind and a wind			tree rules
3	scatter	past	a wind	the clouds	moment		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
4	fall	past	the wind not said here		then	suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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