Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 112

She opened her wonderfully beautiful eyes, and spoke a few words, but nobody understood her.--And lo! as a reward for the sorrow and suffering she had undergone, she held in her arms a new-born babe.

Who acts: lady, nobody, reward · What happens: open, speak, understand, undergo, hold, bear · To what, where: beautiful eyes, few words, lady, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, nobody, reward), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
4	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spoke	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 understood	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 understood	cc
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 understood	nsubj
16	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 understood	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 understood	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 held	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	36 held	cc
21	lo	lo	INTJ	_	36 held	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 reward	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reward	det
25	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lo	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 sorrow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sorrow	det
28	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 suffering	cc
30	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	conj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 undergone	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 undergone	aux
33	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 reward	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 held	nsubj
36	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 arms	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 arms	nmod:poss
39	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 held	obl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 babe	det
41	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 born	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 new	punct
43	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 babe	amod
44	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arms	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	open	past	lady	lady's beautiful eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past		a few words		tree rules
3	understand	past	nobody	lady		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	undergo	past · perfect · passive	a reward for the sorrow and suffering not said here	lady		tree rules
5	hold	past	lady		lady's arms a born babe	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location
6	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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