The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 91
Suddenly, with a shriek, a blast of wind swept down from the hills and blew the fire out towards them.
Who acts: blast · What happens: sweep down, blow out, blast · To what, where: hills, fire, wind
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blast), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 swept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 shriek | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shriek | det |
| 5 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shriek | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blast | det |
| 8 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swept | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blast | nmod |
| 11 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 swept | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 hills | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hills | det |
| 15 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swept | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blew | cc |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swept | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 blew | compound:prt |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep down | past | a blast of wind | the hills | with a shriek; down, suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hill=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | blow out | past | a blast of wind not said here | the fire | towards people | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient towards they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | blast | wind | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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