Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 43
And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended.
Who acts: dryad, women, I, life · What happens: have, gnaw, depend · To what, where: more real cause, fear, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad, women, I, life), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 cause | amod |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cause | amod |
| 6 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cause | nmod |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gnawed | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 gnawed | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gnawed | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 gnawed | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gnawed | aux |
| 17 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gnawed | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 depended | obl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depended | nsubj |
| 25 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | dryad | more real cause | for fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | women = woman | fear not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gnaw | might · perfect | I | the tree | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | depend | past | dryad's life | on the tree | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on which=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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