The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 77

And he held one nostril and blew with the other at the two regiments; they were separated and blown away in the blue sky over the mountains, one this way, and the other that.

Who acts: blower · What happens: hold, blow, separate, blow away · To what, where: one nostril, two regiments, nostrils, blue sky

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blower), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 held	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nostril	nummod
5	nostril	nostril	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blew	cc
7	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blew	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 regiments	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 regiments	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 regiments	nummod
14	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blew	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 separated	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 separated	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 separated	aux:pass
18	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 held	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blown	cc
20	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 separated	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 blown	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 sky	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sky	amod
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blown	obl
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 mountains	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountains	det
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 blown	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 separated	obl
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 one	nmod:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 other	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 other	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 separated	conj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 other	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	blower	one nostril			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Theme
2	blow	past	blower not said here		the two regiments	with the other	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with other=Theme
3	separate	past · passive		nostrils = nostril		one this way obl	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	blow away	participle			the blue sky	over the mountains; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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