Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 151

A light wind filled the sails, and the young student sat down with his face turned towards the fresh wind, and went to sleep, which was not exactly the most prudent thing he could have done.

Who acts: light wind, young student, face, sleep · What happens: fill, sit down, turn, go, not be, do · To what, where: sails, fresh wind, sleep, prudent thing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light wind, young student, face, sleep), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wind	compound
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	nsubj
4	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sails	det
6	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 student	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 student	amod
11	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	advcl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 wind	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wind	det
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wind	amod
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 sleep	case
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thing	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 thing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 thing	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 thing	advmod
31	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	35 thing	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 prudent	advmod
34	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	appos
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 done	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 done	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 done	aux
39	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 thing	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past	a light wind	the sails			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient
2	sit down	past	the young student				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	castle's face		the fresh wind		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards wind=Trajectory
4	go	past	the young student not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5	not is a	past	sleep	the prudent thing		exactly property	tree rules
6	do	could · perfect	face	the prudent thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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