Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 2

She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die!

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: be, die

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, child), 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 downcast	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 downcast	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 downcast	advmod
4	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 afraid	advmod
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 downcast	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 die	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 die	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 die	aux
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	xcomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 downcast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother	downcast property	tree rules
2	be		mother not said here		tree rules
3	die	should	child		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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