Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 1

It was a very sad day, and every heart in the house felt the deepest grief; for the youngest child, a boy of four years old, the joy and hope of his parents, was dead.

Who acts: It, heart, parents · What happens: be, feel, hope · To what, where: sad day, deepest grief

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, heart, parents), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 felt	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 heart	det
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heart	nmod
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grief	det
16	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 grief	amod
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 child	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 child	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 child	det
21	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 child	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 years	case
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 old	obl:unmarked
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 joy	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 joy	det
32	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 child	appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hope	cc
34	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 joy	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 parents	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 parents	nmod:poss
37	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hope	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dead	punct
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dead	cop
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a sad day		tree rules
2	feel	past	every heart in the house	the deepest grief		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme
3	is	past	every heart in the house not said here		dead property	tree rules
4	hope		heart's parents			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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