Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 3
It was so pale, the small eyes had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so softly, now and then, with a deep respiration, as if it sighed; and the mother looked still more sorrowfully on the little creature.
Who acts: child, mother · What happens: be, close, draw, sigh, look · To what, where: small eyes, breath, more, little creature
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 (child, mother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pale | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pale | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 pale | advmod |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 closed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 closed | aux |
| 10 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pale | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 closed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pale | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 softly | advmod |
| 19 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 now | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 drew | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 then | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 now | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 respiration | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 respiration | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 respiration | det |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 respiration | amod |
| 28 | respiration | respiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sighed | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 sighed | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 sighed | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sighed | nsubj |
| 33 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 respiration | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 looked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 looked | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mother | det |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 looked | nsubj |
| 38 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pale | conj |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 looked | obj |
| 41 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 38 looked | advmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 creature | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 creature | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 creature | amod |
| 45 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 looked | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | past · perfect · passive | the small eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | child | child's breath | now | softly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||
| 4 | sigh a condition, not said to happen | past | child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | the mother | more | the little creature | sorrowfully property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=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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