Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 111
It was good for them, for they had no wood, and the forest, from which they might have obtained it, had been cut down.
Who acts: snow, clothes · What happens: be, have, obtain, cut down · To what, where: wood, clothes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, clothes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 had | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forest | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forest | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wood | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 obtained | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 obtained | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 obtained | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 obtained | aux |
| 22 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wood | acl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 obtained | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cut | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 cut | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 cut | aux:pass |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 cut | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | snow | for clothes; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | clothes | no wood and the forest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 3 | obtain | might · perfect · passive | clothes | no wood and the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut down | past · perfect · passive | clothes not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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