Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 164

Daa and his daughters could not help hearing it, so I blew about their ears to drown the noise; what use was it that they should listen?

Who acts: Daa, I, use · What happens: not help, hear, blow, drown, be, listen · To what, where: nest, noise, use

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 (Daa, I, use), 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	Daa	Daa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 daughters	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nmod:poss
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Daa	conj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 help	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 help	advmod
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 help	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hearing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blew	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 blew	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 blew	nsubj
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 help	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 ears	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blew	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drown	mark
18	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 blew	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 noise	det
20	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drown	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 listen	obj
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 it	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 it	cop
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 listen	nsubj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 listen	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 listen	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 listen	aux
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	conj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Daa and Daa's daughters			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	gerund	Daa and Daa's daughters not said here	nest		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	blow	past	I		about walls's ears	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	drown	to-infinitive	I not said here	the noise		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient
5	is a	past	use	use		tree rules
6	listen	should	use			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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