Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 231
Every grain of truth which the keen wind carried up and whirled towards me I caught and treasured.
Who acts: grain · What happens: carry up, whirl, catch, treasure · To what, where: keen wind, I
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 (grain), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 grain | det |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grain | nmod |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 caught | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wind | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whirled | cc |
| 12 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 carried | conj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 whirled | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 whirled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 treasured | cc |
| 18 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry up | participle | the keen wind not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | whirl | participle · passive | I | towards me | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme towards i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | every grain of truth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||||
| 4 | treasure | past | every grain of truth not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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