Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 209

Tell it better, any of you, if you know how," said the Wind; and he rushed away, and was gone.

Who acts: you, railway · What happens: tell, know, say, rush away, be · To what, where: any, story, Wind · 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 (you, railway), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	obj
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Tell	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 any	punct
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Tell	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 any	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 how	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 how	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wind	det
17	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rushed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rushed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rushed	nsubj
21	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 rushed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gone	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rushed	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	any	story	good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the Wind			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wind=Topic
4	rush away in a quote	past	railway			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	past	railway not said here			gone property	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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