Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 15

I saw him hastening away with your little child; he strides faster than the wind, and never brings back what he has taken away."

Who acts: I, weight · What happens: see, hasten away, stride, not bring back, take away · To what, where: weight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weight), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	hastening	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 saw	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 hastening	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hastening	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 strides	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strides	nsubj
12	strides	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 strides	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faster	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brings	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brings	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 brings	advmod
20	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 strides	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 brings	advmod
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 taken	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taken	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 brings	advcl
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 taken	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 strides	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 strides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	weight		tree rules
2	hasten away	gerund	weight not said here		with your little child; away property	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with child=Eventuality
3	stride	present	weight		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not bring back	present	weight not said here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	take away	present · perfect	weight		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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