The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 67

And the wind said yes, and that all that day he had been blowing backwards and forwards over it without being able to move one single tile.

Who acts: wind, man · What happens: say, blow, be, move · To what, where: gold, one single tile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, man), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blowing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blowing	cc
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 day	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blowing	obl:unmarked
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blowing	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blowing	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 blowing	aux
15	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
16	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	15 blowing	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 forwards	cc
18	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	16 backwards	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blowing	obl
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 able	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blowing	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 move	mark
25	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 tile	nummod
27	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tile	amod
28	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 move	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wind					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	blow	past · perfect · progressive	man		gold	day	backwards property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	is	gerund	man not said here				able property	tree rules
4	move	to-infinitive	man not said here	one single tile				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tile=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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