Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 31

She had eaten the hearts of five children, and had imagined that if she could obtain two more she would be able to fly and make herself invisible.

Who acts: staircase · What happens: eat, imagine, obtain, be, fly, make · To what, where: hearts, staircase

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hearts	det
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eaten	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hearts	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 imagined	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 imagined	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 imagined	aux
12	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 eaten	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 obtain	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 obtain	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obtain	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 obtain	aux
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 imagined	ccomp
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 more	nummod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 able	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 able	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 obtain	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fly	mark
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 make	cc
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fly	conj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 make	obj
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 make	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	staircase	the hearts of five children		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	imagine	past · perfect	staircase not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	obtain a condition, not said to happen	could	staircase			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	staircase		able property	tree rules
5	fly	to-infinitive	staircase not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	infinitive	staircase not said here	staircase	invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product

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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