Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 168

The Star beheld all this from the pink morning sky, and its beam trembled upon two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man; and soon it was said that he was sick unto death, and he lay stretched upon a bed of pain.

Who acts: Star, beam, Such, sky · What happens: behold, tremble, say, be, stretch, beam · To what, where: this, pink morning sky, two great tears, cheek, Such · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Star, beam, Such, sky), 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 Star	det
2	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 this	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 beheld	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
8	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sky	compound
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trembled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trembled	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beam	nmod:poss
14	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trembled	nsubj
15	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beheld	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 tears	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tears	nummod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tears	amod
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trembled	obl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 cheeks	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cheeks	det
22	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cheeks	amod
23	feverish	feverish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cheeks	amod
24	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tears	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cheeks	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 said	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	aux:pass
34	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beheld	parataxis
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 sick	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sick	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sick	cop
38	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 said	ccomp
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	40 death	case
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sick	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stretched	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 stretched	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stretched	nsubj:pass
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stretched	aux:pass
45	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 beheld	conj
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 bed	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 bed	det
48	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stretched	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 pain	case
50	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bed	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the Star	this	the pink morning sky		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	tremble	participle	sky's beam		two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tear=Location
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		cheek		soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is	past	Such			unto death; sick property	tree rules
5	stretch	past · passive		Such		upon a bed of pain	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	beam		sky				nom beam «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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