The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 17

But above the noise the son of Long Hans could hear the whistling of the wind and the crackling of the branches as they fell beneath the weight of the snow.

Who acts: son, plants, wind · What happens: hear, fall, whistle · To what, where: whistling, noise, weight

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, plants, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
2	above	above	ADP	_	4 noise	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Long	case
8	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	nmod
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Long	flat
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 whistling	det
13	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whistling	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crackling	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crackling	det
19	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wind	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 branches	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 branches	det
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crackling	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 fell	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	advcl
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	28 weight	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weight	det
28	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 snow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 snow	det
31	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weight	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	could	the son of Long	the whistling of the wind and the crackling of the branches	the noise	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whistling=Stimulus
2	fall	past	plants = plant		the weight of the snow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath weight=Location
3	whistle		the wind and the crackling of the branches			nom whistling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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