Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 183

She had the Egyptian bird to thank for that; or was it perchance her reward for having once interceded for the preservation of the nest of its black brother in the forest of Borreby?

Who acts: stork, shed, perchance reward · What happens: have, thank, be, intercede, preserve · To what, where: Egyptian bird, perchance reward, nest

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 (stork, shed, perchance reward), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 thank	mark
7	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thank	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reward	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 reward	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reward	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reward	nsubj
14	perchance	perchance	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reward	amod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 reward	nmod:poss
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 having	mark
18	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 reward	acl
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 having	advmod
20	interceded	intercede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 having	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 preservation	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 preservation	det
23	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 interceded	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 nest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nest	det
26	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 preservation	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 brother	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brother	amod
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nest	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 forest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forest	det
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brother	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Borreby	case
35	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 forest	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	stork	the Egyptian bird		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	stork not said here		for that	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for that=Attribute
3	is a	past	shed	stork's perchance reward		tree rules
4	have	gerund	stork's perchance reward not said here		once property	tree rules
5	intercede	participle	stork's perchance reward not said here		for the preservation of the nest of shed's black brother in the forest of Borreby	tree rules
6	preserve			the nest of shed's black brother in the forest of Borreby		nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient

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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