Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 112

If the seaman loosens one knot, then he has a good wind; if a second, then it blows pretty stiffly; if he undoes the third and fourth, then it rages so that the forests are upturned.

Who acts: seaman, knot · What happens: loosen, have, blow, undo, rage, upturn · To what, where: one knot, good wind, third, forests

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seaman, knot), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 loosens	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seaman	det
3	seaman	seaman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosens	nsubj
4	loosens	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 knot	nummod
6	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosens	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 has	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loosens	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wind	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wind	amod
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 blows	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 second	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 second	det
17	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blows	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 second	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 blows	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blows	nsubj
21	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loosens	conj
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	23 stiffly	advmod
23	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	21 blows	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 undoes	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 undoes	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 undoes	nsubj
27	undoes	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loosens	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 third	det
29	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 undoes	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fourth	cc
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 third	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rages	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 rages	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rages	nsubj
35	rages	rage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 undoes	conj
36	so	so	SCONJ	_	41 upturned	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 upturned	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forests	det
39	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 upturned	nsubj:pass
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 upturned	aux:pass
41	upturned	upturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 rages	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loosens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	present	the seaman	one knot			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
2	have	present	seaman	a good wind	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
3	blow	present	knot		then	stiffly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	undo a condition, not said to happen	present	seaman	the third			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient
5	rage	present	knot		then		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	upturn	present · passive		the forests			tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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