Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 65

In one of her flights, however it may have happened, she was caught, before she was aware of it, in a horse-hair net which some boys had attached to a tree.

Who acts: one, mother · What happens: happen, catch, be, attach · To what, where: mother, hair net

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, mother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 happened	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flights	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flights	nmod:poss
5	flights	flight	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 happened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flights	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	11 happened	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 happened	aux
11	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux:pass
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 happened	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 aware	punct
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 aware	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 aware	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 aware	cop
20	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 caught	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 aware	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 net	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	29 net	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 net	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hair	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 horse	punct
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 net	compound
29	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 attached	nsubj:pass
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 boys	det
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 attached	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 attached	aux
34	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 net	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 tree	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tree	det
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 attached	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	may · perfect	one			of mother's flights; however property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		mother	a hair net		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	mother			of bush; aware property	tree rules
4	attach	past · perfect · passive		a hair net		to a tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

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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