Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 25
Alas! she was the cause of their not advancing more quickly.
Who acts: Eliza, swans · What happens: be, not advance · To what, where: cause
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 (Eliza, swans), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 cause | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cause | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cause | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cause | det |
| 6 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 advancing | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 advancing | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 advancing | advmod |
| 10 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cause | acl |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 advancing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Eliza | the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not advance | gerund | swans = swan | the cause not said here | quickly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer cause=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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