Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 169

"There are altars erected to my honor," said the wind, who wished to say something agreeable to him as he sat there boldly looking down upon the people in the street.

Who acts: altars, wind, aeronaut, my · What happens: be, erect, say, wish, sit, look down · To what, where: altars, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (altars, wind, aeronaut, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	altars	altar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
5	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 altars	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 honor	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 honor	nmod:poss
8	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 erected	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wished	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wind	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	xcomp
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 say	obj
20	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 something	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 agreeable	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sat	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wished	advcl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 sat	advmod
27	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 sat	advmod
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sat	advcl
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 looking	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looking	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 street	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 street	det
35	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 people	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	altars		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	erect in a quote	participle		altars not said here		to my honor	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the wind				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish	past	the wind				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wind not said here	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	sit	past	aeronaut		there	boldly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look down	gerund	aeronaut not said here			upon the people in the street; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon people=Theme
8	honor in a quote		my				nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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