Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 66

Then they croaked in harsh accents of the forest that now existed no more, of the many pretty birds' nests destroyed and the little ones left without a home; and all for the sake of that great bit of lumber, that proud ship, that never sailed forth.

Who acts: fields, forest · What happens: croak, exist, destroy, leave, not sail, accent · To what, where: harsh accents, more, little ones, proud ship, forest

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 (fields, forest), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 croaked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 croaked	nsubj
3	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 accents	case
5	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 accents	amod
6	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 croaked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accents	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 existed	nsubj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 existed	advmod
12	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forest	acl:relcl
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 existed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 destroyed	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	22 nests	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 birds	det
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 birds	amod
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 birds	amod
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nests	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 birds	case
22	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 destroyed	obl
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 croaked	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ones	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ones	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 destroyed	obj
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ones	acl
29	without	without	ADP	_	31 home	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 home	det
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sake	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sake	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 sake	det
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 sake	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sake	det
37	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 croaked	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 bit	case
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 bit	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bit	amod
41	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sake	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 lumber	case
43	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bit	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ship	punct
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 ship	det
46	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ship	amod
47	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bit	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sailed	punct
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 sailed	obj
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	51 sailed	advmod
51	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ship	acl:relcl
52	forth	forth	ADV	_	51 sailed	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 croaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	past	fields = field		harsh accents of the forest	then	for all sake of that great bit of lumber	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for sake=Recipient
2	exist	past	the forest	more		now		tree rules
3	destroy	past	fields = field not said here	the little ones			of the many pretty birds's nests	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	leave	participle		the little ones not said here			without a home	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not sail	past		that proud ship			forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory
6	accent			the forest				nom accent «communication transitive»: of=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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