Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 193

From the Tree of the Sun she broke four leaves; which she gave up to the wind and the weather, that they might be carried to her brothers as letters and a greeting, in case she did not meet them in the wide world.

Who acts: page · What happens: break, give up, carry, not meet · To what, where: four leaves, wind, leaves, brothers, wide world

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 (page), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 Tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tree	det
3	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tree	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 leaves	nummod
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broke	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gave	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 gave	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wind	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weather	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 weather	det
21	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wind	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carried	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 carried	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carried	nsubj:pass
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 carried	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 carried	aux:pass
27	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gave	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 brothers	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brothers	nmod:poss
30	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carried	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 letters	case
32	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carried	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 greeting	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 greeting	det
35	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 letters	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 meet	punct
37	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 meet	mark
38	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 in	fixed
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 meet	nsubj
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 meet	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 meet	advmod
42	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 carried	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 meet	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
46	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 meet	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	page	four leaves			from the Tree of the Sun	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient from tree=Co-Patient
2	give up	past			the wind and the weather			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient
3	carry	might · passive		leaves = leaf	page's brothers		as letters and a greeting	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to brother=Destination
4	not meet	past · do-support	page	leaves = leaf		the wide world		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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