Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 74

Would her husband and her daughters flit past?

Who acts: husband · What happens: flit · To what, where: past

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 flit	aux
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flit	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 daughters	cc
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughters	nmod:poss
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 husband	conj
7	flit	flit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flit	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flit	would	mother's husband and mother's daughters	past					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location past=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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