Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 176

But as he was sitting on the weather-cock of the steeple, which kept turning round and round with him, he was under the false impression that the same wind still blew, and that he could stay where he was without expense.

Who acts: wind, steeple, same wind · What happens: sit, keep, turn, be, blow, stay · To what, where: false impression

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 (wind, steeple, same 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sitting	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 cock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cock	det
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cock	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 weather	punct
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 steeple	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 steeple	det
13	steeple	steeple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cock	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 steeple	acl:relcl
17	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 kept	xcomp
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 turning	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 round	cc
20	round	round	ADV	_	18 round	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 impression	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 impression	cop
26	under	under	ADP	_	29 impression	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 impression	det
28	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 impression	amod
29	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 blew	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wind	amod
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 blew	nsubj
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 blew	advmod
35	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 impression	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stay	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stay	cc
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 stay	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stay	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 stay	aux
41	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 blew	conj
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 expense	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 expense	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 expense	cop
45	without	without	ADP	_	46 expense	case
46	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stay	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	wind			on the weather cock of the steeple	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cock=Location
2	keep	past	the steeple				tree rules
3	turn	gerund	the steeple not said here			with wind; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	wind	the false impression			tree rules
5	blow	past	the same wind		still		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	stay	could	wind				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	wind			without expense	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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