Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 54
Now that Anne Lisbeth was at her journey's end, she was kept waiting a long time; and for those who wait, time passes slowly.
Who acts: Anne, end, time · What happens: be, keep, wait, pass, journey · To what, where: end
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, end, time), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 kept | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 end | mark |
| 3 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nsubj |
| 4 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Anne | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 end | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 end | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kept | aux:pass |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 kept | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waiting | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 passes | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 passes | cc |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 time | det |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 wait | nsubj |
| 24 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 passes | nsubj |
| 27 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kept | advcl |
| 28 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 passes | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Anne | at Anne's journey's end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | Anne's journey's end | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Anne's journey's end not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pass | present | that time | slowly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | Anne | nom journey «act 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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