Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 93

The Viking did not return on that day, nor the next; he was, however, on the way home; but the wind, so favorable to the storks, was against him; for it blew towards the south.

Who acts: Viking, cat, wind · What happens: not return, be, blow · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viking, cat, wind), 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 Viking	det
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 return	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 return	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 return	advmod
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 next	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 next	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 next	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 return	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 way	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 way	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
17	however	however	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 however	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	conj
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 him	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 him	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wind	det
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 him	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 favorable	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 favorable	advmod
29	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wind	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 storks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 storks	det
32	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 favorable	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wind	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 him	cop
35	against	against	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 return	advcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 blew	punct
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 blew	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 blew	nsubj
40	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 return	conj
41	towards	towards	ADP	_	43 south	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 south	det
43	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 blew	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not return	past · do-support	the Viking		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	cat	the way		home, however property	tree rules
3	is	past	the wind			against cat	tree rules
4	blow	past	Viking			towards the south	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards south=Recipient

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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