Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 5

The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found kindness and help wherever they had been cast by the winds, but nowhere would it have been more sincere than in the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife, who had stood, only the day before, beside her child's grave, who would have been five years old that day if God had spared it to her.

Who acts: winds, ship, wife, grave, God · What happens: die, find, cast, be, stand, spare · To what, where: dying mother, mother, grave, ship, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, ship, wife, grave), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 child	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	aux
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kindness	conj
14	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	18 cast	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cast	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cast	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 cast	aux:pass
18	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 winds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 winds	det
21	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sincere	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 sincere	cc
24	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 sincere	advmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sincere	aux
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sincere	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sincere	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sincere	cop
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 sincere	advmod
30	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 cottage	case
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 cottage	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cottage	det
34	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sincere	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 wife	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fisherman	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fisherman	amod
38	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wife	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 fisherman	case
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cottage	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stood	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 stood	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 stood	aux
44	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 wife	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 day	punct
46	only	only	ADV	_	48 day	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 day	det
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stood	obl:unmarked
49	before	before	ADV	_	48 day	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 grave	punct
51	beside	beside	ADP	_	55 grave	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 child	nmod:poss
53	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 grave	nmod:poss
54	's	's	PART	_	53 child	case
55	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stood	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 old	punct
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 old	nsubj
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 old	aux
59	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 old	aux
60	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 old	cop
61	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 years	nummod
62	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 old	obl:unmarked
63	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 grave	amod
64	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	65 day	det
65	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 old	obl:unmarked
66	if	if	SCONJ	_	69 spared	mark
67	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 spared	nsubj
68	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 spared	aux
69	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 old	advcl
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 spared	obj
71	to	to	ADP	_	72 her	case
72	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 spared	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	find	would · perfect · passive		the dying mother and the unfortunate child					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme kindness=Attribute
3	cast	past · perfect · passive	the winds	mother				wherever property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
4	is	would · perfect	ship					than the cottage of the poor fisherman's wife; nowhere, sincere property	tree rules
5	stand	past · perfect	the poor fisherman's wife			wife's child's grave	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside grave=Location
6	is	would · perfect	wife's child's grave				day; year	old property	tree rules
7	spare a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	God	ship	child				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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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