Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 47

She had not seen him since she carried him in her arms; neither had she been for years to the count's palace; it was quite a journey thither from the town.

Who acts: Anne, palace · What happens: not see, carry, have, be · To what, where: boy, arms, journey, town

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, palace), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	obj
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 carried	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carried	nsubj
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carried	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carried	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	neither	neither	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	parataxis
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 years	nsubj
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 years	cop
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 count	det
22	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 palace	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 count	case
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 years	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 journey	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 journey	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 journey	cop
28	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	30 journey	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 journey	det
30	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	conj
31	thither	thither	ADV	_	30 journey	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 town	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 town	det
34	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 journey	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	Anne	boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	carry	past	Anne	boy	Anne's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
3	have	past					neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle	Anne			for years	to the count's palace	tree rules
5	is a	past	palace	quite journey	the town		thither property	tree rules

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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