Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 30

Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.

Who acts: woman, that, afflicted mother, miracle · What happens: lie down, drink up, be, afflict, think, happen · To what, where: lake, impossibility · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, that, afflicted mother, miracle), 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 lay	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 drink	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 impossibility	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 impossibility	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 impossibility	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 impossibility	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 impossibility	det
15	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 human	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 human	det
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 impossibility	acl
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 human	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mother	det
23	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 mother	amod
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 happen	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 miracle	det
28	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happen	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 happen	aux
30	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thought	ccomp
31	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	30 happen	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	woman		then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink up	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the lake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient
3	is a	past	that	a impossibility			tree rules
4	afflict	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	the afflicted mother				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	happen	might	a miracle			nevertheless property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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