Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 56
Many a night have I got up to see if the wind had not changed: and changed it had, sure enough; but you never came.
Who acts: I, wind, you · What happens: have, get up, see, not change, change, not come
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | advcl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 changed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 changed | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 changed | advmod |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 see | ccomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 changed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 changed | cc |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 changed | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sure | punct |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 sure | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 came | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 came | advmod |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not change a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the wind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | change | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | past | wind | sure property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not come | past | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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