The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 61
Let the wind blow upon him that it may blow away his sorrow.”
Who acts: you, wind, wizard · What happens: let, blow, blow away, sorrow · To what, where: wind, sorrow
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wind, wizard), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blow | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 blow | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blow | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | aux |
| 10 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blow | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 blow | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | infinitive | the wind not said here | upon wizard | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | blow away | may | wind | wizard's sorrow | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | |||
| 4 | sorrow | wizard | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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