Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 68

I let it hear my voice, that it might know what the storm has to say.

Who acts: I, snow, storm · What happens: let, hear, know, have, say · To what, where: snow, voice · 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 (I, snow, storm), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	parataxis
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 has	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storm	det
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 has	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	past	I	snow	tree rules
2	hear	infinitive	snow not said here	my voice	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	know	might	snow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	present	the storm		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the storm not said here		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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