Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 39

Years passed away, and at last the linen was so worn it could scarcely hold together. "

Who acts: Years, linen · What happens: pass away, be, hold together

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 (Years, linen), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worn	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worn	cc
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 worn	amod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 linen	det
9	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 last	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worn	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 worn	advmod
12	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 passed	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hold	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	16 hold	advmod
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 worn	ccomp
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 hold	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle	Years	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past		worn property	tree rules
3	hold together	could	linen	scarcely, together property	vn exist-47.1 «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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