The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 235

How the wind whistled in my ears as you threw me from the bridge into the cold water!

Who acts: wind, you · What happens: whistle, throw · To what, where: me, bridge

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, you), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 whistled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whistled	nsubj
4	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whistled	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 threw	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 threw	nsubj
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whistled	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 threw	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 bridge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the wind					in my ears	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ear=Theme
2	throw	past	you	me		the bridge		into the cold water	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme from bridge=Initial_Location into water=Destination

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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