Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 86

One day, when the Psalms were being sung, he sighed deeply, and his eyes became bright; they were fixed upon a place near the altar where he had knelt with his friend who was dead.

Who acts: Jurgen, eyes, friend · What happens: sing, sigh, become, fix, kneel, be · To what, where: Psalms, eyes

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, eyes, friend), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sung	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sung	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Psalms	det
6	Psalms	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 sung	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sung	aux:pass
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sung	aux:pass
9	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sighed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sighed	nsubj
12	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sung	conj
13	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	12 sighed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sighed	conj
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fixed	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fixed	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fixed	aux:pass
23	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sung	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fixed	obl
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 altar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 altar	det
29	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	nmod
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 knelt	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knelt	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 knelt	aux
33	knelt	kneel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 altar	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 friend	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friend	nmod:poss
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 knelt	obl:agent
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 dead	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 dead	cop
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 friend	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · passive		the Psalms	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sigh	past	Jurgen			deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	Jurgen's eyes			bright property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	fix	past · passive		eyes = eye		upon a place near the altar	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	kneel	past · perfect	Jurgen				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Jurgen's friend			dead property	tree rules

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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