Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 13

He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of filling it before ascending the mountain.

Who acts: rain, flask · What happens: seize, be, not think, fill, ascend · To what, where: hunting flask, flask, mountain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, flask), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flask	nmod:poss
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flask	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 empty	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 empty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 empty	cop
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seized	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 thought	advmod
16	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seized	conj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 filling	mark
18	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 thought	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 filling	obj
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 ascending	mark
21	ascending	ascend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 filling	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountain	det
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ascending	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	rain	rain's hunting flask		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
2	is	past	flask		empty property	tree rules
3	not think speech: other	past · perfect	rain			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fill	gerund	rain not said here	flask		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	ascend	gerund	rain not said here	the mountain		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory

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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