Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 53

Then there is the desert; if you went there, your eyes would soon be full of sand with the lightest breeze, and if it should blow great guns, you would most likely find yourself in a sand-drift.

Who acts: desert, you, eyes, breeze · What happens: be, go, blow, find · To what, where: great guns, yourself, sand drift

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desert, you, eyes, breeze), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 went	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 full	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 full	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 full	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 full	cop
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 sand	case
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 breeze	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 breeze	det
22	lightest	light	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 breeze	amod
23	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sand	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 blow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 blow	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 blow	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 blow	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 blow	aux
29	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	parataxis
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 guns	amod
31	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 blow	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 likely	advmod
36	likely	likely	ADV	_	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 blow	advcl
38	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 find	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 drift	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 drift	det
41	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drift	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 sand	punct
43	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the desert		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	you		there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would	your eyes				of sand with the lightest breeze; full, soon property	tree rules
4	blow a condition, not said to happen	should	breeze	great guns				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gun=Patient
5	find	would	you	yourself	a sand drift		likely property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic

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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