Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 115
But dumb she must remain till her task was finished.
Who acts: word · What happens: remain, finish, task · To what, where: task
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 dumb | cc |
| 2 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dumb | ccomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 finished | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 task | nmod:poss |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | aux:pass |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 remain | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dumb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | must | word | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | word's task | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | task | word | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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