Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 150
Yes, there was one thing more, an alchymist's glass, a new one, which had been lately bought, and filled with what could be gathered from the ground of the treasure which had promised so much but failed in keeping its promise.
Who acts: one thing, treasure · What happens: be, buy, fill, gather, promise, fail · To what, where: new one, ground, treasure, promise
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 thing, treasure), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thing | nummod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 thing | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glass | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 alchymist | det |
| 10 | alchymist | alchymist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glass | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 alchymist | case |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bought | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bought | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 bought | aux:pass |
| 21 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 22 bought | advmod |
| 22 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 filled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bought | conj |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 30 gathered | mark |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 gathered | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gathered | aux:pass |
| 30 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 filled | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 ground | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ground | det |
| 33 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gathered | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 treasure | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 treasure | det |
| 36 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ground | nmod |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 promised | aux |
| 39 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 much | advmod |
| 41 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 promised | advmod |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 failed | cc |
| 43 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 promised | conj |
| 44 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 45 keeping | mark |
| 45 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 failed | advcl |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 promise | nmod:poss |
| 47 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 keeping | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one thing and a alchymist's glass | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | past · perfect · passive | a new one | lately property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | gather | could · passive | the ground of the treasure | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from ground=Source | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the treasure | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | keep | gerund | treasure's promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||||
| 8 | promise | treasure | nom promise «communication 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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