Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 165

Never would she be able to cling to the mercy of Heaven till she had recovered this other half which was now held fast in the deep water.

Who acts: Anne · What happens: not be, cling, recover, hold · To what, where: other half, deep water

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 (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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 able	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cling	mark
7	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mercy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mercy	det
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cling	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Heaven	case
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mercy	nmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 recovered	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 recovered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 recovered	aux
16	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 cling	advcl
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 half	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 half	amod
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 recovered	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 held	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 held	aux:pass
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 held	advmod
23	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 half	acl:relcl
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 held	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	Anne				able property	tree rules
2	cling	to-infinitive	Anne not said here				to the mercy of Heaven	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to mercy=Co-Theme
3	recover	past · perfect	Anne	this other half				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
4	hold	past · passive		this other half	the deep water	now	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in water=Location

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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