Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 237
"It will be blown to dust by the wind," said the father, as he seized the open hand she held towards him.
Who acts: wind, father, plenty · What happens: blow, say, seize, hold · To what, where: hand, dust, open hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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, father, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blown | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 blown | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blown | aux:pass |
| 5 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dust | case |
| 7 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blown | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blown | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blown | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seized | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 seized | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seized | nsubj |
| 19 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hand | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seized | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 held | nsubj |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hand | acl:relcl |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 held | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | future · passive | the wind | hand | dust | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to dust=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | father | the open hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | plenty | the open hand not said here | towards father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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