Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 6

He wiped them off and stopped the bleeding, and it seemed to him as if this had cleared and lightened his brain.

Who acts: sea, it · What happens: wipe off, stop, seem, clear, lighten · To what, where: drops, bleeding, sea, this, brain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wiped	nsubj
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wiped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 wiped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stopped	cc
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wiped	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bleeding	det
8	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wiped	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 cleared	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 cleared	mark
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 cleared	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cleared	aux
19	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lightened	cc
21	lightened	lighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 cleared	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brain	nmod:poss
23	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lightened	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wipe off	past	sea	drops = drop		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
2	stop	past	sea not said here	the bleeding		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality
3	seem	past	it		sea	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	clear	past · perfect · passive		this		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
5	lighten	participle		sea's brain		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brain=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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