Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 57
"I passed on in my course," said the Wind, "and he passed away also.
Who acts: Wind, sparrow · What happens: pass on, say, pass away · To what, where: course · 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 (Wind, sparrow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 course | nmod:poss |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wind | det |
| 12 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wind | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wind | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on in a quote | past | the Wind = wind | my course | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pass away in a quote | past | sparrow | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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