Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 88

Then she began to think of the expense, and what the distance would be to walk.

Who acts: Anne, distance · What happens: begin, think, be

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, distance), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 expense	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 expense	det
8	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 began	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 distance	det
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 walk	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 walk	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 walk	mark
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 what	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Anne	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Anne not said here		of the expense	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	the distance		walk 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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