Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 147

It might have been used as a broom, if any one had wanted to sweep the place out, and a grand sweeping-out there really was; I thought it would be so.

Who acts: one, I, entrance · What happens: use, want, sweep out, think, be · To what, where: entrance, place · 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 (one, I, entrance), 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	5 used	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 broom	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 broom	det
8	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 wanted	mark
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	aux
14	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 used	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sweep	mark
16	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweep	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	16 sweep	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 out	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 out	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 out	det
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 out	amod
24	sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 out	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sweeping	punct
26	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	parataxis
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 out	advmod
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 was	advmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 out	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 so	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 so	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 so	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	32 thought	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	might · perfect · passive		entrance	as a broom	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as broom=Attribute
2	want a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	any one			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	sweep out not said to happen	to-infinitive	any one not said here	the place		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	entrance		so property	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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