Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 77

And she looked down into the well; and it was a happiness to see how the one became a blessing to the world, to see how much happiness and joy were felt everywhere.

Who acts: flower, well, one · What happens: look down, be, see, become, feel · To what, where: happiness, blessing, much happiness · 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 (flower, well, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 happiness	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 happiness	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 happiness	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happiness	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 happiness	det
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happiness	acl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 became	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blessing	det
21	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blessing	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happiness	amod
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 felt	nsubj:pass
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 joy	cc
32	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happiness	conj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 felt	aux:pass
34	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 see	ccomp
35	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 felt	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look down	past	flower		into the well; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
2	is a	past	well	a happiness		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	flower not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past	the one	a blessing to the world		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	see	to-infinitive	flower not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	feel	past · passive		much happiness and joy	everywhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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