Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 9

The mother sits by her bed every evening, and hears her say her prayers; and then she has a kiss, and the mother sits by the bed till the little one has gone to sleep, which generally happens as soon as ever she can close her eyes.

Who acts: mother, little one · What happens: sit, hear, say, have, go, happen · To what, where: mother, prayers, kiss, sleep, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, little 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bed	nmod:poss
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hears	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hears	cc
11	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hears	obj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hears	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 prayers	nmod:poss
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 has	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 has	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kiss	det
22	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sits	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sits	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mother	det
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sits	nsubj
27	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sits	obl
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 gone	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 one	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	nsubj
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	aux
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 sits	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 sleep	case
38	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 happens	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 happens	nsubj
41	generally	generally	ADV	_	42 happens	advmod
42	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	advcl
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 soon	advmod
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 happens	advmod
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 ever	case
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 close	obl
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 close	nsubj
48	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 close	aux
49	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 happens	parataxis
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eyes	nmod:poss
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 close	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the mother			evening	by mother's bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location
2	hear	present	the mother not said here	mother				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	mother not said here	mother's prayers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
4	have	present	mother	a kiss		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient
5	sit	present	the mother				by the bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location
6	go	present · perfect	the little one		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
7	happen	present					generally, soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	close	can	mother	mother's eyes				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
9	pray		mother					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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