Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 40
Whatever had been alive in the mill remained, and what had been gained by it has nothing to do with this story.
Who acts: mill, wind · What happens: be, remain, gain, have, do · To what, where: nothing
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 (mill, wind), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 alive | det:predet |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 alive | cop |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 remained | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mill | det |
| 7 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alive | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gained | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gained | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 gained | aux:pass |
| 14 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 alive | conj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 has | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gained | ccomp |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nothing | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | alive property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | the mill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gain | past · perfect · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | wind | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | wind not said here | nothing not said here | with this story | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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