Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 130
She has no doubt taken them for herself, to keep them to all eternity.
Who acts: destiny · What happens: take, keep · To what, where: doubt
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (destiny), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 eternity | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 eternity | det |
| 15 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | destiny | doubt | for destiny | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for herself=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | doubt | to all eternity | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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