Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 19
Whirr, whirr," went the wheel so quickly that the flax could not collect its thoughts. "
Who acts: flax, wheel · What happens: go, not collect, think · To what, where: wheel, thoughts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flax, wheel), 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 | Whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 whirr | punct |
| 3 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whirr | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whirr | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wheel | det |
| 8 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 collect | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flax | det |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 collect | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 collect | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 collect | advmod |
| 16 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 collect | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | the wheel | Whirr and whirr vocative; quickly property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not collect in a quote | could | the flax | wheel's thoughts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think in a quote | wheel | nom thought «cognition 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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