Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 41

And at length they fell into rags and tatters, and thought it was all over with them, for they were torn to shreds, and steeped in water, and made into a pulp, and dried, and they knew not what besides, till all at once they found themselves beautiful white paper. "

Who acts: impossibilities, linen · What happens: fall, think, be, tear, steep, make · To what, where: length, impossibilities, pulp, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (impossibilities, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 rags	case
7	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tatters	cc
9	tatters	tatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rags	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 over	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 over	advmod
16	over	over	ADV	_	12 thought	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 torn	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 torn	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 torn	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 torn	aux:pass
23	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thought	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 shreds	case
25	shreds	shred	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 torn	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 steeped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 steeped	cc
28	steeped	steep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 water	case
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 steeped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 steeped	parataxis
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 pulp	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pulp	det
36	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dried	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 dried	cc
39	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 made	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 knew	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knew	nsubj
43	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 knew	advmod
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 besides	nsubj
46	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 knew	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 all	punct
48	till	till	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 besides	obj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 once	case
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	53 found	obl
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 all	acl:relcl
54	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 found	obj
55	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 paper	amod
56	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 paper	amod
57	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 found	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	impossibilities = impossibility		length	into rags and tatters	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	think speech: other	past	impossibilities = impossibility not said here			with impossibilities = impossibility	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	linen			all, over property	tree rules
4	tear	past · passive		impossibilities = impossibility		to shreds result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to shred=Result
5	steep	past	impossibilities = impossibility not said here			in water	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in water=Instrument
6	make	participle			a pulp		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into pulp=Product
7	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	not know	past	impossibilities = impossibility				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	beside	present		all			tree rules
10	find	past	impossibilities = impossibility	impossibilities = impossibility			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme paper=Attribute

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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