Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 163

The flashing Star beheld him one morning as he rose, pale and trembling with fever, from his sad couch; then he stepped towards the statue, threw back the covering, took one long, sorrowful gaze at his work, and then, almost sinking beneath the burden, he dragged the statue out into the garden.

Who acts: flashing, glance · What happens: behold, rise, tremble, step, throw back, take · To what, where: glance, sad couch, statue, covering, one long sorrowful gaze, work

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flashing, glance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flashing	det
2	flashing	flashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	nsubj
3	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flashing	appos
4	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beheld	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 morning	nummod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 rose	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rose	nsubj
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beheld	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pale	punct
12	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rose	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trembling	cc
14	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pale	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 fever	case
16	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trembling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 couch	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 couch	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 couch	nmod:poss
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 couch	amod
21	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 stepped	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 stepped	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stepped	nsubj
25	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beheld	parataxis
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 statue	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 statue	det
28	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stepped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stepped	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 threw	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 covering	det
33	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stepped	conj
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 gaze	nummod
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gaze	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 long	punct
39	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gaze	amod
40	gaze	gaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 work	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 work	nmod:poss
43	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sinking	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sinking	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 sinking	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sinking	punct
48	almost	almost	ADV	_	49 sinking	advmod
49	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 took	advcl
50	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	52 burden	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 burden	det
52	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sinking	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dragged	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 dragged	nsubj
55	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stepped	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 statue	det
57	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 dragged	obj
58	out	out	ADV	_	55 dragged	advmod
59	into	into	ADP	_	61 garden	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 garden	det
61	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 dragged	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the flashing	glance		morning		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	rise	past	glance		glance's sad couch		pale property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from couch=Initial_Location
3	tremble	gerund	glance not said here				with fever	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	step	past	glance		the statue	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards statue=Destination
5	throw back	past	glance not said here	the covering				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=Theme
6	take	past	glance not said here	one long sorrowful gaze	glance's work			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent gaze=Theme at work=Asset
7	sink	gerund	glance not said here			then	beneath the burden; almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	drag out	past	glance	the statue	the garden		out property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme
9	work		glance					nom work «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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