Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 143
Ida and Anna Dorothea wept bitterly, Joanna stood, pale and proud, biting her lips till the blood came; but what could that avail?
Who acts: Ida, Joanna, blood · What happens: weep, stand, bite, come, avail · To what, where: lips
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 (Ida, Joanna, blood), 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 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Anna | cc |
| 3 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ida | conj |
| 4 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Anna | flat |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 wept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pale | punct |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proud | cc |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pale | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 biting | punct |
| 15 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 biting | obj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blood | det |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 biting | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 avail | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 avail | cc |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 avail | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 avail | aux |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 avail | det |
| 27 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Ida and Anna | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Joanna | pale property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | Joanna not said here | Anna's lips | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | avail | could | tree rules |
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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