Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 73

During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly.

Who acts: brothers, life · What happens: follow, be, sit, have, fly · To what, where: solitude

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 (brothers, life), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 whole	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whole	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 absent	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 absent	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 absent	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 absent	cop
13	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whole	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 absent	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 solitude	case
18	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 before	advmod
22	before	before	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	xcomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 quickly	advmod
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	26 flown	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	life's brothers			absent property	tree rules
3	sit	past	life	solitude			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location
4	have	past	life not said here		time	before property	tree rules
5	fly	participle	life not said here			quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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