Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 133

He was quite giddy, I could have blown him down," said the Wind; "but I only fanned the glowing coals, and accompanied him through the door to the room where his daughter sat shivering.

Who acts: fire, I, Wind, daughter · What happens: be, blow down, say, fan, glow, accompany · To what, where: fire, glowing coals, door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fire, I, Wind, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 giddy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giddy	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 giddy	advmod
4	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blown	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 blown	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 blown	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 blown	aux
9	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 giddy	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blown	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 blown	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blown	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 blown	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giddy	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wind	det
16	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fanned	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 fanned	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 fanned	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fanned	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 fanned	advmod
22	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giddy	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coals	det
24	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 coals	amod
25	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fanned	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 accompanied	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 accompanied	cc
28	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fanned	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 accompanied	obj
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accompanied	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accompanied	obl
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 sat	advmod
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 daughter	nmod:poss
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sat	nsubj
39	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 room	acl:relcl
40	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 sat	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 giddy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	fire			giddy property	tree rules
2	blow down	could · perfect	I	fire			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wind				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fan	past	I	the glowing coals			tree rules
5	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	accompany	past	I not said here	fire	the door	to the room	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through door=Destination
7	sit	past	fire's daughter				tree rules
8	shiver	gerund	fire's daughter not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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