Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 5

In the mean time she had almost finished her task; only one coat of mail was wanting, but she had no flax left, and not a single nettle.

Who acts: Eliza, one coat · What happens: finish, want, have, leave, task · To what, where: task, flax

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, one coat), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finished	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	aux
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 finished	advmod
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 task	nmod:poss
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wanting	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 coat	nummod
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanting	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mail	case
16	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coat	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wanting	aux
18	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 finished	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	advcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 flax	det
24	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 flax	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 nettle	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 nettle	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 nettle	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 nettle	det
30	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 nettle	amod
31	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Eliza	Eliza's task	time	almost property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector task=Eventuality
2	want	past · progressive	one coat of mail				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	past	Eliza	no flax		a single nettle obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient
4	leave	participle		no flax not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	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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