Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 100

The wind took the covering, but not the man; it could even seize upon him, but not hold him fast.

Who acts: wind, covering · What happens: take, seize, not hold · To what, where: covering, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, covering), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 covering	det
5	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 man	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 man	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seize	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seize	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 seize	aux
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 seize	advmod
15	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seize	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hold	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 hold	advmod
21	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seize	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	obj
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hold	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the wind	the covering	the man obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=Theme
2	seize	could	covering		upon man	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not hold	infinitive	covering not said here	man	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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