Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 41

The glass with the foot of blue wood was the only thing that did not sink, for the wood floated and the glass drifted away to be cast upon the shore and broken; where and when, is indeed of no consequence.

Who acts: glass, only thing, wood · What happens: be, not sink, float, drift away, cast, break · To what, where: only thing, shore

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass, only thing, wood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 foot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foot	det
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foot	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 consequence	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sink	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sink	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 sink	advmod
16	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thing	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 floated	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 floated	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floated	nsubj
21	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drifted	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glass	det
24	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drifted	nsubj
25	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 floated	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 drifted	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 cast	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cast	aux:pass
29	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 drifted	advcl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 shore	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shore	det
32	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cast	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 broken	cc
34	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 cast	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 where	punct
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 floated	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 when	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 where	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 consequence	cop
41	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	44 consequence	advmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 consequence	case
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 consequence	det
44	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 consequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the glass with the foot of blue wood	the only thing			tree rules
2	not sink	past · do-support	the only thing				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	float	past	the wood				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drift away	past	the glass			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cast	to-infinitive · passive	the glass not said here		the shore		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon shore=Destination
6	break	participle	the glass not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	is	present				of no consequence; indeed 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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