Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 187
When she awoke she thought for a moment that she still held the stone, but she only grasped the knob of her distaff.
Who acts: page · What happens: awake, think, hold, grasp · To what, where: stone, knob
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 held | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 held | advmod |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grasped | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grasped | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grasped | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 grasped | advmod |
| 19 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knob | det |
| 21 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grasped | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 distaff | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 distaff | nmod:poss |
| 24 | distaff | distaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knob | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | page | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | page | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | page | the stone | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 4 | grasp | past | page | the knob of page's distaff | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knob=Stimulus |
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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