Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 6

How proud was his bearing, for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than merely hunting the stag and emptying the wine-cup.

Who acts: bearing, castle · What happens: be, boast, hunt, empty · To what, where: stag, wine cup

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 (bearing, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14627): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 proud	advmod
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proud	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bearing	nmod:poss
5	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proud	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blood	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 blood	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blood	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blood	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 blood	case
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blood	amod
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proud	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boast	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boast	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 boast	aux
16	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 blood	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 deeds	case
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 noble	advmod
19	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deeds	amod
20	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boast	obl
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 hunting	mark
22	merely	merely	ADV	_	23 hunting	advmod
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 more	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stag	det
25	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 emptying	cc
27	emptying	empty	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hunting	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cup	det
29	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cup	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wine	punct
31	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 emptying	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	castle's bearing		proud property	tree rules
2	is	past	castle		of royal blood	tree rules
3	boast speech: other	could	castle not said here		of noble deeds	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hunt	gerund	castle not said here	the stag	merely property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
5	empty	gerund	castle not said here	the wine cup		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cup=Source

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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