Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 38

So near they were to home and all its joys--so near to death and all its terrors!

Who acts: Clara, wind · What happens: be, joy

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 (Clara, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11054): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 near	advmod
2	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 near	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 near	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 near	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 joys	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 joys	det
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 joys	nmod:poss
10	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 home	conj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 near	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 near	advmod
13	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 near	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 death	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 near	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 terrors	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 terrors	det
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 terrors	nmod:poss
19	terrors	terror	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 death	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 near	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Clara					to home and wind's joys; near property	tree rules
2	joy		wind						nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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