Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 11

But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could rest, and she sunk into the fathomless depths of despair.

Who acts: doubts, mother · What happens: be, rest, sink · To what, where: support, mother, fathomless depths

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 (doubts, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 support	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 doubts	det
3	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 support	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 support	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 support	det
6	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 support	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 support	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 rest	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rest	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 rest	aux
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sunk	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sunk	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sunk	nsubj
19	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rest	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 depths	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 depths	det
22	fathomless	fathomless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 depths	amod
23	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sunk	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 despair	case
25	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 depths	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 support	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	this doubts	no support	mother		tree rules
2	rest	could	mother				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	sink	past	mother			the fathomless depths of despair	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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