Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 54

But the distressed mother bent down over all the smallest plants, and heard within them how the human heart beat; and amongst millions she knew her child's.

Who acts: distressed mother, mother · What happens: distress, bend down, hear, know · To what, where: distressed mother, smallest plants, human heart beat, child

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 (distressed mother, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj
5	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mother	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 bent	compound:prt
7	over	over	ADP	_	11 plants	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 plants	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plants	det
10	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 plants	amod
11	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	within	within	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	obl
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 beat	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beat	det
19	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beat	amod
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beat	compound
21	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	25 millions	case
25	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knew	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 child	nmod:poss
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	obj
30	's	's	PART	_	29 child	case
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	distress	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	bend down	participle		the distressed mother not said here	all smallest plants		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plant=Location
3	hear	past	the distressed mother	the human heart beat		within plants = plant	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	know	past	mother	mother's child		amongst millions	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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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