Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 48
They had ventured too high, or the wind had carried them here and left them to die of cold.
Who acts: insects · What happens: venture, carry, leave, die · To what, where: wind, insects
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insects), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ventured | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ventured | aux |
| 3 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ventured | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | aux |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ventured | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 carried | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ventured | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cold | case |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 die | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past · perfect | insects = insect | high property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the wind | here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | insects = insect not said here | insects = insect | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | insects = insect not said here | of cold | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/48/