Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 55

The wind whistled in his ears, he heard the church door creak on its hinges as it closed, and it seemed to him as if he had lost his senses--then a cold shudder passed over him, and he awoke.

Who acts: wind, creak, it, cold shudder, shudder · What happens: whistle, hear, close, seem, lose, pass · To what, where: church door creak, hinges, wind, senses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, creak, it, cold shudder), 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 whistled	nsubj
3	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whistled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whistled	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 creak	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creak	compound
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creak	compound
13	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hinges	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hinges	nmod:poss
16	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 creak	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 closed	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 closed	nsubj
19	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whistled	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 lost	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 lost	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 seemed	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 senses	nmod:poss
32	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lost	obj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 passed	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 passed	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 shudder	det
36	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 shudder	amod
37	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 passed	nsubj
38	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whistled	parataxis
39	over	over	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 passed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 awoke	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 awoke	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 awoke	nsubj
44	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 passed	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the wind					in wind's ears	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ear=Theme
2	hear	past	wind	the church door creak		creak's hinges			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer creak=Stimulus
3	close	past	creak						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	seem	past	it		wind				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	lose a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	wind	wind's senses					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality
6	pass	past	a cold shudder				then	over wind	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location
7	awake	past	shudder						vn appear-48.1.1 «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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