Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 52

It was a whole week before she arrived; but therein was just the very best of it, for one could thus see that she was of the same species.

Who acts: bush, one, wife · What happens: be, see

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bush, one, wife), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 week	amod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 best	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 best	cc
11	therein	therein	ADV	_	16 best	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 best	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 best	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 best	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 best	advmod
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 arrived	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 best	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
21	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 arrived	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 species	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 species	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 species	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 species	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 species	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 species	amod
31	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 see	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	bush	arrive property	tree rules
2	is	past	bush not said here	of bush; good, therein property	tree rules
3	see	could	one	thus property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	wife	of the same species	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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