Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 6

And the eyes of the General's lady were wet, for she could not bear to think of her own death.

Who acts: eyes, mother · What happens: be, not bear, think, die

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 (eyes, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 wet	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eyes	det
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wet	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 lady	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lady	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 General	case
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wet	cop
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bear	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 bear	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bear	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bear	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bear	advmod
16	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wet	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bear	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 death	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 death	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 death	amod
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 think	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eyes of the General's lady	wet property	tree rules
2	not bear	could	mother		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	mother not said here	of mother's own death	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die		mother		nom death «event 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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