Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 195
But she had the invisible thread, to which she could hold fast; and she possessed a gift which all the others lacked.
Who acts: page, others · What happens: have, hold, possess, lack · To what, where: invisible thread, gift
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, others), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thread | det |
| 5 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thread | amod |
| 6 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hold | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hold | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hold | aux |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thread | acl:relcl |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 hold | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 possessed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 possessed | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 possessed | nsubj |
| 17 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gift | det |
| 19 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 possessed | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lacked | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 others | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lacked | nsubj |
| 24 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gift | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | page | the invisible thread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | could | page | to the invisible thread; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | past | page | a gift | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lack | past | all others | a gift | 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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