Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 226

She had entrusted the four green leaves from the Tree of the Sun to the winds, as letters of greeting to her brothers, and she had full confidence that the leaves would reach them.

Who acts: girl, leaves · What happens: entrust, have, reach, letter · To what, where: girl, full confidence, brothers, greeting

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 (girl, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entrusted	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entrusted	aux
3	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 leaves	nummod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 entrusted	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tree	det
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun	det
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tree	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 winds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 winds	det
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 entrusted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 letters	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 letters	case
19	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 entrusted	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 greeting	case
21	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 letters	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 brothers	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brothers	nmod:poss
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 greeting	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entrusted	parataxis
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 confidence	amod
30	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 reach	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 leaves	det
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 reach	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reach	aux
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reach	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entrusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entrust	past · perfect · passive		girl	to the winds; as letters of greeting to girl's brothers	tree rules
2	have	past	girl	full confidence		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
3	reach	would	the leaves	brothers = brother		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	letter			greeting to girl's brothers		nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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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