The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 97
When they came near the North Wind’s dwelling, he was so wild and frantic that they felt cold gusts a long while before they got there.
Who acts: brothers, Wind · What happens: come, be, feel, gust, get · To what, where: dwelling
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gusts | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 dwelling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wind | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wind | compound |
| 7 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Wind | case |
| 9 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wild | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wild | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wild | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 wild | advmod |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frantic | cc |
| 16 | frantic | frantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wild | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 felt | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wild | advcl |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 felt | xcomp |
| 21 | gusts | gust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 while | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 while | amod |
| 24 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gusts | obj |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 got | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gusts | advcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 got | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 gusts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | brothers = brother | the North Wind's dwelling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near dwelling=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wind | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Wind not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | feel | past | brothers = brother | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | gust | present | while | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 6 | get | past | brothers = brother | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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