Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 152

But as soon as she stepped into the cold water, a sudden faintness seized her; she clutched at the air convulsively with her hand, took one step forward, and fell.

Who acts: banns, sudden faintness · What happens: step, seize, clutch, take, fall · To what, where: cold water, banns, air, one step

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banns, sudden faintness), 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	_	6 stepped	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stepped	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 stepped	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stepped	nsubj
6	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stepped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seized	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 faintness	det
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faintness	amod
14	faintness	faintness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seized	nsubj
15	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stepped	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seized	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 clutched	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 clutched	nsubj
19	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clutched	obl
23	convulsively	convulsively	ADV	_	19 clutched	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clutched	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clutched	parataxis
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 step	nummod
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	forward	forward	ADV	_	28 took	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fell	cc
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 took	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	banns		the cold water	soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
2	seize	past	a sudden faintness	banns			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	clutch	past	banns		the air	with banns's hand; convulsively property	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past		one step		forward property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	fall	past					vn occur-48.3 «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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