Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 189
But she had wetted them with her tears, and the twist was as strong as a cable.
Who acts: page, twist · What happens: wett, be · To what, where: threads
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, twist), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wetted | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wetted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wetted | aux |
| 4 | wetted | wett | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wetted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wetted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strong | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 twist | det |
| 12 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strong | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 strong | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 strong | advmod |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wetted | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 cable | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cable | det |
| 18 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strong | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wetted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wett | past · perfect | page | threads = thread | with page's tears | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the twist | as a cable; strong property | 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: «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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