Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 60

It was not yet the time for that, but still she wanted to fly out; so the others bit off her majesty's wings, and she had to stay where she was.

Who acts: draught, dust, others · What happens: not be, want, fly out, bite off, have, stay · To what, where: time, wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (draught, dust, others), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 time	advmod
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 wanted	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fly	mark
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 fly	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bit	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 bit	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 others	det
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bit	nsubj
21	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	26 wings	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 majesty	nmod:poss
24	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wings	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 majesty	case
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bit	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stay	mark
32	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 was	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 was	nsubj
35	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stay	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	draught	the time	yet	for that	tree rules
2	want	past	dust		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly out not said to happen	to-infinitive	dust not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite off	past	the others	dust's majesty's wings			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	have	past	dust				tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive	dust not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be	past	dust				vn exist-47.1 «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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