Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 14

She does not run about stupidly and awkwardly, for she knows what she wants, she knows what she can do, she's as soft as a zephyr and as strong as a storm; she knows how to begin a thing carefully, and to have her own way.

Who acts: Dutchman · What happens: not run about, know, want, do, be, begin · To what, where: thing, own way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dutchman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 stupidly	advmod
6	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 awkwardly	cc
8	awkwardly	awkwardly	ADV	_	6 stupidly	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 knows	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	parataxis
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 wants	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 knows	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 knows	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 do	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knows	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 soft	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 soft	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 soft	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 soft	advmod
27	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knows	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 zephyr	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 zephyr	det
30	zephyr	zephyr	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 soft	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 strong	cc
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 strong	advmod
33	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 soft	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 storm	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 storm	det
36	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 strong	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 knows	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knows	nsubj
39	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	parataxis
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 begin	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 begin	mark
42	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 knows	ccomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thing	det
44	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 begin	obj
45	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	42 begin	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 have	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 have	cc
48	to	to	PART	_	49 have	mark
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 knows	conj
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 way	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 way	amod
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not run about	present · do-support	Dutchman		stupidly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	Dutchman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want	present	Dutchman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	know	present	Dutchman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	can	Dutchman			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	is	present	Dutchman		as a zephyr; soft property	tree rules
7	be		Dutchman not said here		as a storm	tree rules
8	know	present	Dutchman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	begin	to-infinitive		a thing	carefully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
10	have	to-infinitive	Dutchman not said here	Dutchman's own way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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