Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 15

But still she could hope, for her task was almost finished, and her brothers were come.

Who acts: Eliza, task, brothers · What happens: hope, be, come, task

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, task, brothers), 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	_	5 hope	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	5 hope	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hope	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hope	aux
5	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finished	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 finished	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 task	nmod:poss
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finished	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finished	cop
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 finished	advmod
12	finished	finished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hope	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hope	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hope	could	Eliza	still		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	Eliza's task		almost, finished property	tree rules
3	come	past	Eliza's brothers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	task		Eliza			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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