Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 135

He stood erect, and held high in the air the brittle glass that contained his costly treasure. '

Who acts: fire, brittle glass · What happens: stand, hold, contain, treasure · To what, where: brittle glass, air, costly treasure

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, brittle glass), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 held	cc
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	advcl
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 held	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
12	brittle	brittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glass	amod
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 contained	nsubj
15	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glass	acl:relcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 treasure	nmod:poss
17	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 treasure	amod
18	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contained	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	fire			erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	participle	fire not said here	the brittle glass	the air	high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Theme in air=Location
3	contain	past	the brittle glass	fire's costly treasure			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme
4	treasure		fire				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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