Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 48

Now, this was not at all witty; but, you see, the storm had done it, and no one has any control over that.

Who acts: this, you, storm, one · What happens: not be, see, do, have · To what, where: club, control, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, storm, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 witty	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 witty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 witty	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 witty	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 witty	advmod
8	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 but	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 witty	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 storm	det
16	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 done	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 see	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	conj
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 control	det
26	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 control	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 witty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this			now	witty property	tree rules
2	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · perfect	the storm	club				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	have	present	no one	any control	that			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=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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