Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 9

It became very cold, the dew fell, and the wind blew; so he thought the best thing he could do would be to return home.

Who acts: sun, dew, wind, best thing · What happens: become, fall, blow, think, do, be · To what, where: best thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, dew, wind, best thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dew	det
7	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blew	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blew	nsubj
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 thought	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thing	acl:relcl
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 return	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 return	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 return	mark
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 return	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	sun		cold property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	the dew			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	past	the wind			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	wind			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	could	wind	the best thing not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	is	would	the best thing		home, return property	tree rules

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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