Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 192

But for this, blind as she was, she would never have found her way home again; to this thread she must hold fast, and trust not to others or even to herself.

Who acts: page · What happens: be, not find, hold · To what, where: way

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 blind	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 blind	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 this	punct
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blind	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 found	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 blind	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 way	nmod:poss
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
17	home	home	ADV	_	14 found	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 found	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hold	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 thread	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 thread	det
22	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hold	aux
25	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blind	conj
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 hold	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 others	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 others	cc
29	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 others	nsubj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 others	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 others	case
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hold	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 herself	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 herself	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 herself	case
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 others	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	page				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not find	would · perfect	page	page's way	again	home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	hold	must	page			to this thread; to others; fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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