Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 117
As these thoughts passed through her mind, fear gave speed to her feet, so that she walked faster and faster.
Who acts: fear, Anne · What happens: pass, give, walk, mind · To what, where: mind, speed, feet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, Anne), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 thoughts | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 thoughts | det |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | obl |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 walked | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 faster | cc |
| 22 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 faster | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Anne's mind | as this thoughts | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | fear | speed | Anne's feet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speed=Theme to foot=Recipient | |||
| 3 | walk | past | Anne | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind | Anne | nom mind «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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