Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 196
She was of few words, and of a dark countenance; but she did not know how to climb, so I blew her overboard before any one found out that she was a woman; and, in my opinion, that was well done," said the Wind.
Who acts: proudest, I, opinion, my · What happens: be, not know, climb, blow, find out, do · To what, where: proudest, one, woman, that · 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 (proudest, I, opinion, my), 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 | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 countenance | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 countenance | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 countenance | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 countenance | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 countenance | amod |
| 11 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 words | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 climb | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 climb | mark |
| 20 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blew | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 blew | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 blew | nsubj |
| 24 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 blew | obj |
| 26 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 24 blew | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blew | obl |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 one | acl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 found | compound:prt |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 woman | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 woman | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 woman | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 woman | det |
| 36 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | advcl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 said | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 said | cc |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 opinion | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 opinion | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 42 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 said | nsubj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 done | punct |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 done | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 done | aux:pass |
| 46 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 done | advmod |
| 47 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 opinion | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 done | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 done | punct |
| 50 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | parataxis |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Wind | det |
| 52 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 said | nsubj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | proudest = proud | of few words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | proudest = proud | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | blow | past | I | proudest = proud | before any one | overboard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 5 | find out | participle | any one not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | proudest = proud | a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | past · passive | that | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my opinion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | opine | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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