Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 172

I must go down there by-and-by, and touch and taste; but I shall sit here a little while longer, for the wind blows pleasantly at my back.

Who acts: I, wind · What happens: go down, sit, blow · To what, where: little, back

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 (I, wind), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 go	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	3 go	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 by	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 by	cc
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 by	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	6 by	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 touch	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 touch	cc
13	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taste	cc
15	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touch	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sit	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sit	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sit	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sit	aux
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sit	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sit	obl:unmarked
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 longer	mark
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 sit	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blows	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 blows	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blows	nsubj
30	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sit	parataxis
31	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	30 blows	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blows	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	must	I		there		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit	shall	I	a little	here	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	blow	present	the wind		my back	pleasantly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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