Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 37
If the wind held good they might reach home in about an hour.
Who acts: wind, Clara · What happens: hold, reach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, Clara), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 held | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | advcl |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 held | xcomp |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | aux |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 reach | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 hour | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold a condition, not said to happen | past | the wind | good property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | might | Clara | hour | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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