Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 19
The wind caught the open window and shut it with a crash, so that a pane came clattering down in fragments; but still she never moved.
Who acts: wind, pane · What happens: catch, shut, come, clatter down, not move · To what, where: open window, window, fragments
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, pane), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 window | amod |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shut | cc |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shut | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 crash | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crash | det |
| 12 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 came | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pane | det |
| 17 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | conj |
| 19 | clattering | clatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 clattering | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fragments | case |
| 22 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 clattering | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 moved | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 moved | cc |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 moved | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 moved | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 moved | advmod |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the wind | the open window | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut | past | the wind not said here | window | with a crash | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with crash=Instrument | |||
| 3 | come | past | a pane | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clatter down | gerund | a pane not said here | fragments | down property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fragment=Location | |||
| 5 | not move | past | pane | still | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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