Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 52

The wind could have told that his only protector was an artist, who, by reading each leaf to him, made it plain; and that they amused themselves by playing at nine-pins together.

Who acts: only protector, artist, leaves · What happens: tell, be, read, make, amuse, play · To what, where: wind, artist, leaf, protector, leaves, nine pins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only protector, artist, leaves), 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	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 artist	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 protector	nmod:poss
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 protector	amod
9	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 artist	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 artist	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 artist	det
12	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reading	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reading	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reading	punct
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 reading	mark
17	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 artist	conj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 leaf	det
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reading	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reading	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 made	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 amused	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 amused	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 amused	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 amused	nsubj
30	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 amused	obj
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 playing	mark
33	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 amused	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 pins	case
35	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 pins	nummod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 nine	punct
37	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 playing	obl
38	together	together	ADV	_	33 playing	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		the wind				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	wind's only protector	a artist				tree rules
3	read	gerund	a artist	each leaf	wind			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic to he=Recipient
4	make	past		protector			plain property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	amuse	past	leaves = leaf	leaves = leaf				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
6	play	gerund	leaves = leaf not said here			nine pins	together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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