Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 49

There was a favourable wind blowing as they left the Spanish coast, and it would be but a short journey, for they hoped to reach their destination in a few weeks; but when they came out upon the wide ocean the wind dropped, the sea became smooth and shining, and the stars shone brightly.

Who acts: favourable wind, words, wind, sea, stars · What happens: be, blow, leave, hope, reach, come out · To what, where: Spanish coast, short journey, destination

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favourable wind, words, wind, sea), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wind	det
4	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wind	amod
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wind	acl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blowing	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coast	det
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coast	amod
12	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 journey	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 journey	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 journey	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 journey	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 journey	cop
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 journey	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 journey	det
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 journey	amod
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hoped	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 hoped	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hoped	nsubj
25	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 reach	mark
27	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hoped	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 destination	nmod:poss
29	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reach	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 weeks	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 weeks	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 weeks	amod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reach	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 dropped	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 dropped	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 came	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dropped	advcl
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 ocean	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ocean	det
42	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ocean	amod
43	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wind	det
45	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dropped	nsubj
46	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 became	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sea	det
49	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 became	nsubj
50	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dropped	conj
51	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 became	xcomp
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 shining	cc
53	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 smooth	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 shone	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 shone	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 stars	det
57	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 shone	nsubj
58	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 became	conj
59	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	58 shone	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a favourable wind		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	gerund	a favourable wind not said here					tree rules
3	leave	past	words = word	the Spanish coast				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Theme
4	is a	would	wind	a short journey				tree rules
5	hope	past	words = word					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	words = word not said here	words's destination		week		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent destination=Theme
7	come out	past	words = word				upon the wide ocean; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
8	drop	past	the wind					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	become	past	the sea				smooth property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	shine	gerund	the sea not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	shine	past	the stars				brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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