Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 213
And if sometimes the mocking strain reached her--
Who acts: mocking strain · What happens: reach · To what, where: 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 (mocking strain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reached | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 reached | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strain | det |
| 5 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strain | compound |
| 6 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the mocking strain | gift | sometimes property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=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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