The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 127

Round them whistled the cold wind, the wolves howled, and the snow hissed; over them flew the black shrieking crows.

Who acts: Kay, wolves, snow · What happens: whistle, howl, hiss, fly · To what, where: cold wind, black shrieking crows

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, wolves, snow), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 whistled	mark
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 whistled	nsubj
3	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 howled	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wind	amod
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whistled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whistled	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolves	det
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 howled	nsubj
10	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hissed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hissed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hissed	nsubj
15	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 howled	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	obl
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 howled	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crows	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 crows	amod
22	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crows	compound
23	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flew	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 howled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	Kay	the cold wind		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic
2	howl	past	the wolves			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hiss	past	the snow			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past	the wolves not said here	the black shrieking crows	over Kay	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme over they=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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