Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 87

He murmured her name, and became deadly pale, and tears rolled down his cheeks.

Who acts: Jurgen, tears, friend · What happens: murmur, become, roll down, name · To what, where: name, cheeks

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, tears, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 murmured	nsubj
2	murmured	murmur	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	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murmured	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 murmured	conj
8	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pale	amod
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rolled	cc
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rolled	nsubj
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 murmured	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 rolled	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cheeks	nmod:poss
16	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rolled	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	murmur speech: other	past	Jurgen	friend's name		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	become	past	Jurgen not said here		pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	roll down	past	tears	Jurgen's cheeks		vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme
4	name		friend			nom name «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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