Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 19

And when the old woman sat at the cottage door on Sunday, and read her hymn-book, the wind would flutter the leaves, and say to the book, "Who can be more pious than you?" and then the hymn-book would answer "Eliza."

Who acts: old woman, wind, hymn book · What happens: sit, read, flutter, say, be, answer · To what, where: cottage door, hymn book, leaves, book, Eliza · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, wind, hymn book), 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	_	6 sat	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sat	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Sunday	case
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 read	cc
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sat	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 book	nmod:poss
17	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 book	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hymn	punct
19	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 read	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flutter	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wind	det
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flutter	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 flutter	aux
24	flutter	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 read	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leaves	det
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flutter	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 read	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 book	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 book	det
32	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pious	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 pious	punct
35	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 pious	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 pious	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 pious	cop
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 pious	advmod
39	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 say	parataxis
40	than	than	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 pious	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 pious	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 pious	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 answer	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 answer	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 book	det
47	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 book	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 hymn	punct
49	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 answer	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 answer	aux
51	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 pious	conj
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Eliza	punct
53	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 answer	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the old woman			the cottage door	sunday		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	read	infinitive	the old woman not said here	woman's hymn book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
3	flutter	would	the wind	the leaves					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
4	say speech: ask	infinitive	the old woman not said here		the book				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to book=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	can						than the book = book; pious property	tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	would	the hymn book		Eliza		then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eliza=Eventuality

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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