Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 47
Waldemar Daa wanted to build a noble ship, a man-of-war, a three-decker, which the king would be sure to buy; and these, the trees of the wood, the landmark of the seamen, the refuge of the birds, must be felled.
Who acts: Waldemar, king · What happens: want, build, be, buy, fell · To what, where: noble ship, trees
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 (Waldemar, king), 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 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waldemar | flat |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 build | mark |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ship | amod |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 war | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 of | punct |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 decker | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 decker | det |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 decker | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 three | punct |
| 20 | decker | decker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 war | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sure | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sure | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | cop |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 decker | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 buy | mark |
| 29 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | xcomp |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 felled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 felled | cc |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 trees | det |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trees | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 trees | det |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wood | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trees | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 landmark | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 landmark | det |
| 41 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wood | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 seamen | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 seamen | det |
| 44 | seamen | seaman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 landmark | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 refuge | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 refuge | det |
| 47 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wood | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 birds | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 birds | det |
| 50 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 refuge | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trees | punct |
| 52 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 felled | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 felled | aux:pass |
| 54 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wanted | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Waldemar | of war and a three decker | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Waldemar not said here | a noble ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | would | the king | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fell | must · passive | this trees of the wood and the landmark of the seamen and the refuge of the birds | 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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