Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 41
His daughters wept; all the people in the mansion wiped their eyes, but Lady Daa had driven away, and I drove away too," said the Wind. "
Who acts: daughters, people, Lady, I, Wind · What happens: weep, wipe, drive away, say · To what, where: eyes · 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 (daughters, people, Lady, I), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wiped | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wiped | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mansion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mansion | det |
| 10 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nmod |
| 11 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wiped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 driven | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 driven | cc |
| 16 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | nsubj |
| 17 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lady | flat |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 driven | aux |
| 19 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wiped | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 driven | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drove | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drove | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 drove | nsubj |
| 24 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 drove | advmod |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 drove | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Wind | det |
| 31 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | wood's daughters | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wipe | past | all people in the mansion | people's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 3 | drive away | past · perfect | Lady | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drive away | past | I | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Wind | 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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