Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 20

When she saw this she hastened to reach the end of the boat, but before she could so it was more than a yard from the bank, and drifting away faster than ever.

Who acts: movement, end · What happens: see, hasten, reach, be, drift away · To what, where: this, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (movement, end), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 saw	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hastened	nsubj
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hastened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 boat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 more	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 more	cc
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 more	aux
19	so	so	ADV	_	18 could	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 more	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 more	cop
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 saw	obj
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 yard	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 yard	det
25	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yard	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 faster	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 faster	cc
31	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 faster	csubj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 drifting	advmod
33	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 saw	conj
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 faster	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	movement	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	hasten	past	movement			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	reach	to-infinitive	movement not said here	the end of the boat		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme
4	is	could	end		than a yard from the bank; more property	tree rules
5	drift away	gerund			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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