Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 49

Once again she seemed to sit beside her, holding the dying woman's hand in hers, hearing the dying woman's last words: "Blessing George!"

Who acts: girl, dying woman · What happens: seem, sit, hold, die, hear, bless · To what, where: hand, last words, George

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, dying woman), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sit	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 woman	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 hers	case
17	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 holding	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hearing	punct
19	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 holding	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 words	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 woman	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 words	amod
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hearing	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Blessing	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Blessing	punct
28	Blessing	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seemed	xcomp
29	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Blessing	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 George	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Blessing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	girl		again		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	sit	to-infinitive	girl not said here			beside girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
3	hold	gerund	girl not said here	the dying woman's hand		in girl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in her=Location
4	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	hear	gerund	girl not said here	the dying woman's last words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
6	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	bless in a quote	gerund	girl not said here	George			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent george=Theme
8	word		the dying woman				nom word «communication transitive»: 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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