Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 25

A whole row of windows stood open, so that the rude wind could enter at its pleasure, and the long white curtains waved to and fro in the current of air.

Who acts: whole row, rude wind, long white curtains, wind · What happens: stand, enter, wave, please · To what, where: pleasure

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole row, rude wind, long white curtains, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4960): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 row	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 row	amod
3	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 windows	case
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 row	nmod
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enter	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	15 enter	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 enter	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wind	amod
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 enter	aux
15	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 pleasure	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pleasure	nmod:poss
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waved	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waved	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 curtains	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 curtains	amod
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 curtains	amod
24	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 waved	nsubj
25	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
26	to	to	ADV	_	25 waved	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fro	cc
28	fro	fro	ADV	_	26 to	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 current	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 current	det
31	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waved	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 air	case
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 current	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a whole row of windows		open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	enter	could	the rude wind	wind's pleasure		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wave	past	the long white curtains		in the current of air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in current=Theme
4	please		wind			nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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