Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 235
She soon found herself again at home; carried thither in a flight of thought, never having loosened her hold of the invisible thread fastened to her father's house.
Who acts: plenty, hold · What happens: find, carry, not loosen, fasten, hold · To what, where: plenty, home, flight, invisible thread
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 (plenty, hold), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | parataxis |
| 10 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 flight | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flight | det |
| 13 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loosened | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 loosened | advmod |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 loosened | aux |
| 19 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hold | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fastened | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 thread | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thread | det |
| 24 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thread | amod |
| 25 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | nmod |
| 26 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loosened | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 father | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fastened | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | plenty | plenty | home | again | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at home=Asset | |
| 2 | carry | participle | a flight of thought | thither property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in flight=Location | ||||
| 3 | not loosen | gerund · perfect | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | fasten | past | plenty's hold of the invisible thread | to plenty's father's house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to house=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | hold | plenty | the invisible thread | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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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