The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 97

The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it.

Who acts: North Wind · What happens: cover, blow, roar · To what, where: poor tree, Wind

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	aux:pass
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 covered	advmod
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 covered	advmod
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 frost	case
9	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snow	cc
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frost	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blowing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 blowing	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wind	det
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wind	compound
16	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 blowing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blowing	aux
18	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 covered	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 roaring	cc
20	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 blowing	conj
21	above	above	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 roaring	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the poor tree		still	with frost and snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with frost=Theme
2	blow	past · progressive	the North Wind					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	roar	gerund	the North Wind not said here		Wind			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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