Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 26

And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to sail through the air, and had darts cast from the hardest steel to break the walls of heaven with.

Who acts: prince, darts · What happens: spend, sail, have, cast, break, construct · To what, where: construction, air, darts, hardest steel, walls, wonderful ships

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, darts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 spent	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spent	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 construction	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 construction	det
8	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ships	case
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ships	amod
11	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 construction	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sail	mark
13	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spent	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sail	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
20	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
21	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 darts	acl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 steel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steel	det
24	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 steel	amod
25	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 break	mark
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 walls	det
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 break	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 heaven	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walls	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	27 break	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spend	past	prince		the construction of wonderful ships	year	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sail	to-infinitive	prince not said here		the air		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory
3	have	past	prince not said here	darts			tree rules
4	cast	participle		darts not said here	the hardest steel		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from steel=Material
5	break	to-infinitive	darts not said here	the walls of heaven			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Patient
6	construct			wonderful ships			nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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