Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 17

If a sailor unties one knot, he has a fair wind; when he unties the second, it blows hard; but if the third and fourth are loosened, then comes a storm, which will root up whole forests.

Who acts: sailor, knot, storm · What happens: untie, have, blow, loosen, come, root up · To what, where: one knot, fair wind, second, whole forests

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, knot, storm), 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 unties	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sailor	det
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unties	nsubj
4	unties	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 comes	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 knot	nummod
6	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unties	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unties	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wind	det
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wind	amod
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 unties	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 unties	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 unties	nsubj
16	unties	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unties	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 second	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 unties	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blows	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blows	nsubj
21	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unties	conj
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blows	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 loosened	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 loosened	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 third	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 third	det
27	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 loosened	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fourth	cc
29	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 third	conj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 loosened	aux:pass
31	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 unties	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 comes	advmod
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 storm	det
36	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 root	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 root	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 root	aux
40	root	root	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 storm	acl:relcl
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 root	compound:prt
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 forests	amod
43	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 root	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	untie a condition, not said to happen	present	a sailor	one knot			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
2	have	present	sailor	a fair wind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
3	untie	present	sailor	the second			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Patient
4	blow	present	knot			hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	loosen	present · passive	a sailor not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
6	come	present	a storm		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	root up	future	a storm	whole forests			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=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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