Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 27

And the yelling children tore the outspread hide from the window-hole, that the dead man might be carried to the ocean, the billowy ocean, that had given him food in life, and that now, in death, was to afford him a place of rest.

Who acts: yelling children · What happens: yell, tore, carry, give, be · To what, where: outspread hide, window hole, dead man, ocean, that, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yelling children), 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	_	5 tore	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tore	nsubj
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hide	det
7	outspread	outspread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hide	amod
8	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tore	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hole	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hole	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 window	punct
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 carried	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 carried	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 carried	aux:pass
21	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tore	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ocean	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ocean	det
24	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ocean	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ocean	det
27	billowy	billowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ocean	amod
28	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ocean	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 given	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 ocean	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	iobj
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 life	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 death	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 death	cc
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 death	nsubj
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 death	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 death	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 death	case
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tore	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 afford	punct
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 afford	cop
46	to	to	PART	_	47 afford	mark
47	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tore	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 afford	obj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 place	det
50	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 afford	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 rest	case
52	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 place	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tore	past	the yelling children	the outspread hide		the window hole	in death	tree rules
3	carry	might · passive		the dead man		the ocean		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ocean=Destination
4	give	past · perfect · passive		that	man	life		tree rules
5	is	past	the yelling children not said here				afford property	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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