Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 236
As she stretched out her hand to her father, the powers of evil dashed with the fury of a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun; a blast of wind rushed through the open doors, and into the sanctuary, where lay the Book of Truth.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: stretch out, dash, rush, lay, infuriate, blast · To what, where: hand, evil, wind, open doors, Book, hurricane
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 (plenty), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stretched | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 powers | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 powers | det |
| 12 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 father | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 evil | case |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 powers | nmod |
| 15 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 evil | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fury | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fury | det |
| 18 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dashed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hurricane | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hurricane | det |
| 21 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fury | nmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 Tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tree | det |
| 24 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hurricane | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Sun | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sun | det |
| 27 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tree | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 blast | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blast | det |
| 30 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wind | case |
| 32 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blast | nmod |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 wind | acl |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 doors | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 doors | det |
| 36 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 doors | amod |
| 37 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rushed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sanctuary | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sanctuary | cc |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 sanctuary | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sanctuary | det |
| 42 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blast | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lay | punct |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 lay | advmod |
| 45 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 sanctuary | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Book | det |
| 47 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 lay | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Truth | case |
| 49 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Book | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | plenty | plenty's hand | to plenty's father and the powers of evil result; a blast of wind and the sanctuary obl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to father=Result | |||
| 2 | dash | participle | evil not said here | with the fury of a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fury=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | rush | participle | wind not said here | the open doors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | the Book of Truth | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result | |||||
| 5 | infuriate | a hurricane over the Tree of the Sun | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | blast | wind | nom blast «act 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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