Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 194
I took pity on the proudest of the sisters," said the Wind. "
Who acts: I, proudest · What happens: take, say · To what, where: pity · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, proudest), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 proudest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 proudest | det |
| 6 | proudest | proud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sisters | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 proudest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proudest | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 proudest | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 14 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | pity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the proudest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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