Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 51

He heard Clara sigh, and felt her shudder convulsively, and he pressed her more closely to him.

Who acts: Jurgen, girl · What happens: hear, feel, press, shudder · To what, where: Clara, shudder, girl, King

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Clara	Clara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
4	sigh	sigh	INTJ	_	2 heard	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 felt	cc
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shudder	nmod:poss
9	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obj
10	convulsively	convulsively	ADV	_	7 felt	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pressed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pressed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pressed	nsubj
14	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pressed	obj
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 closely	advmod
17	closely	closely	ADV	_	14 pressed	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pressed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Jurgen	Clara			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clara=Stimulus
2	feel	past	Jurgen not said here	girl's shudder		convulsively property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Theme
3	press	past	Jurgen	girl	King	closely property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
4	shudder		girl				nom shudder «feeling 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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