Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 73

She had watched an opportunity to get into a goods train, and had travelled by the railway; and yet she had arrived almost too late.

Who acts: rest · What happens: watch, get, travell, arrive · To what, where: opportunity, goods train

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 (rest), 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 watched	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watched	aux
3	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 opportunity	det
5	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 opportunity	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 train	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 train	det
10	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 train	compound
11	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 travelled	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 travelled	aux
15	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 watched	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 railway	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 railway	det
18	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travelled	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 arrived	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arrived	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 arrived	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 arrived	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arrived	aux
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 watched	conj
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	26 too	advmod
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 late	advmod
27	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 arrived	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	rest	a opportunity				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	rest not said here	a opportunity not said here	a goods train			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into train=Destination
3	travell	past · perfect	rest not said here				by the railway	tree rules
4	arrive	past · perfect	rest			yet	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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