Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 182

They did not like to drive the stork away; therefore the old shed was left standing, and the poor woman who dwelt in it allowed to stay.

Who acts: roofs, old shed, poor woman · What happens: not like, drive away, leave, stand, dwell, allow · To what, where: stork, old shed, shed

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 (roofs, old shed, poor woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drive	mark
6	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stork	det
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drive	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 drive	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 left	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shed	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shed	amod
14	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux:pass
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 like	parataxis
17	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 left	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 allowed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 allowed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 allowed	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dwelt	nsubj
24	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 woman	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dwelt	obl
27	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stay	mark
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 allowed	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	roofs = roof				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	drive away not said to happen	to-infinitive	roofs = roof not said here	the stork		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme
3	leave	past · passive		the old shed		therefore property	tree rules
4	stand	gerund	the old shed not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dwell	past	the poor woman		shed		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
6	allow	past	the poor woman				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
7	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the poor woman not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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