Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 42

She always had a few twigs or green shoots in water--let the winter rage without as it might.

Who acts: transition · What happens: have, let · To what, where: few twigs, winter rage

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (transition), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 twigs	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 twigs	amod
6	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 shoots	cc
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoots	amod
9	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 twigs	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoots	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rage	det
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rage	compound
16	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 might	mark
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 might	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 might	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	transition	a few twigs or green shoots in water				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Patient
2	let	infinitive	transition not said here	the winter rage					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rage=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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