Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 181
For the sake of the stork's nest it had been allowed to remain, although it is a blot on the landscape.
Who acts: nest · What happens: allow, remain, be · To what, where: nest, blot, landscape
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 (nest), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allowed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stork | det |
| 6 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 stork | case |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sake | nmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 allowed | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 remain | mark |
| 14 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blot | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 20 blot | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 blot | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 blot | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blot | det |
| 20 | blot | blot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remain | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 landscape | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 landscape | det |
| 23 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blot | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · perfect · passive | nest | for the sake of the stork's nest | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | nest not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | nest | a blot | the landscape | 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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