Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 12

That's the fault of those horrible trees,' replied his neighbour; 'there is no free current of air; the wind can only come from the sea'--and they were gone.

Who acts: That, fault, wind, trees · What happens: be, reply, come · To what, where: fault, neighbour, free current, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, fault, wind, trees), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fault	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fault	det
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 current	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 trees	det
7	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fault	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 neighbour	nmod:poss
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 current	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 current	det
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 current	amod
20	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 air	case
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 current	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wind	det
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 current	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 sea	punct
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 gone	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gone	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gone	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gone	cop
37	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 come	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 current	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the fault		of that horrible trees	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past		blackthorn's neighbour			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neighbour=Topic
3	is a	present	the fault	no free current		of air	tree rules
4	come	can	the wind		the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location
5	is	past	trees = tree			gone property	tree rules

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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