Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 117

But when she began the seventh she found she had no more flax.

Who acts: word · What happens: begin, find, have · To what, where: seventh, more flax · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	8 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seventh	det
6	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 flax	det
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 flax	amod
13	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	word	the seventh	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventh=Eventuality
2	find	past	word		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	word	no more flax	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient

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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