Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 89

She looks at the Alpine glow in the evening sky, which is caused by the children of the sun retiring to rest on the mountain-tops; and again they breathe their song of the traveller whom the whirlwind could deprive of his cloak but not of his life.

Who acts: Babette, children, tops, whirlwind, traveller · What happens: look, cause, retire, rest, breathe, deprive · To what, where: evening sky, mountain tops, song

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, children, tops, whirlwind), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 glow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glow	det
5	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glow	amod
6	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sky	compound
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glow	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 caused	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 caused	aux:pass
14	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sky	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caused	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 children	nmod
21	retiring	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 children	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rest	mark
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 retiring	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 tops	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tops	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tops	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 mountain	punct
28	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rest	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 breathe	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 again	cc
31	again	again	ADV	_	33 breathe	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 breathe	nsubj
33	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	parataxis
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 song	nmod:poss
35	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 breathe	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 traveller	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 traveller	det
38	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 song	nmod
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 deprive	obj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 whirlwind	det
41	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 deprive	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 deprive	aux
43	deprive	deprive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 breathe	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 cloak	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 cloak	nmod:poss
46	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 deprive	obl
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 life	cc
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 life	advmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 life	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 life	nmod:poss
51	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cloak	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Babette				at the Alpine glow in the evening sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glow=Theme
2	cause	present · passive	the children of the sun	the evening sky				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
3	retire	gerund	the children of the sun not said here					tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive	the children of the sun not said here		the mountain tops			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
5	breathe	present	tops = top	tops's song of the traveller		again		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
6	deprive	could	the whirlwind				of whirlwind's cloak but whirlwind's life	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Source of cloak=Theme
7	sing		the traveller					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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