Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 44

We fly to warm countries, and cool the sultry air that destroys mankind with the pestilence.

Who acts: We, sultry air · What happens: fly, warm, cool, destroy · To what, where: countries, sultry air, mankind

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sultry air), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 warm	mark
4	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fly	advcl
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warm	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cool	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cool	cc
8	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fly	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
10	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cool	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 destroys	nsubj
13	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 air	acl:relcl
14	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 destroys	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 pestilence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pestilence	det
17	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 destroys	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	present	We			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm	to-infinitive	We not said here	countries		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient
3	cool	infinitive	We not said here	the sultry air		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
4	destroy	present	the sultry air	mankind	with the pestilence	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mankind=Patient with pestilence=Instrument

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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