Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 83
I was not able to blow it away, neither did I wish to do so.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, blow away, wish, do · To what, where: look
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), 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:pg27200:14703): 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 able | advmod |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 blow | mark |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blow | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 blow | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 13 wish | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow away | to-infinitive | I not said here | look | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | wish | past · do-support | I | neither property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: 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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