Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 209

And tearless, but sunk in bitter reflection, he sat upon his hard couch, and then knelt down--before whom?

Who acts: evil · What happens: sink, sit, kneel down · To what, where: tearless, bitter reflection, hard couch

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 (evil), 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	_	5 sunk	cc
2	tearless	tearless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sunk	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sunk	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 sunk	cc
5	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 reflection	case
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reflection	amod
8	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sunk	parataxis
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 couch	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 couch	nmod:poss
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 couch	amod
15	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knelt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knelt	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 knelt	advmod
19	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 knelt	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 knelt	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	participle · passive		tearless	bitter reflection			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	sit	past	evil		evil's hard couch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location
3	kneel down	past	evil not said here			then	down property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic

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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