Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 188

During the long evenings she had spun constantly, and round the distaff were woven threads finer than the web of a spider; human eyes could never have distinguished these threads when separated from each other.

Who acts: page · What happens: spin, weave, not distinguish, separate · To what, where: distaff, human eyes

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	During	during	ADP	_	4 evenings	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evenings	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evenings	amod
4	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spun	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spun	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spun	aux
7	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	7 spun	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woven	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 woven	cc
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 distaff	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 distaff	det
13	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woven	obl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 woven	aux:pass
15	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spun	conj
16	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 finer	nsubj
17	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 woven	xcomp
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 web	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 web	det
20	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finer	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 spider	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spider	det
23	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 web	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 distinguished	punct
25	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 distinguished	nsubj:pass
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 distinguished	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 distinguished	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 distinguished	aux
30	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spun	conj
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 threads	det
32	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 distinguished	obj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 separated	advmod
34	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 distinguished	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	34 separated	obl
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · perfect	page			evening	constantly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	weave	past · passive	page not said here		the distaff		fine property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: round distaff=Trajectory
3	not distinguish	could · perfect · passive		human eyes				tree rules
4	separate	participle					from each	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from each=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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