Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 13

The tears of her husband fell on her forehead, but she took no notice of him; her thoughts were with her dead child; her whole existence seemed wrapped up in the remembrances of the little one and of every innocent word it had uttered.

Who acts: tears, mother, thoughts, whole existence, innocent word · What happens: fall, take, be, seem, wrap up, utter · To what, where: forehead, notice, remembrances, existence, husband, little one

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 (tears, mother, thoughts, whole existence), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tears	nmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 forehead	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 forehead	nmod:poss
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 notice	det
15	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 notice	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 thoughts	nmod:poss
20	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 child	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 child	cop
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 child	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 seemed	punct
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 existence	nmod:poss
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 existence	amod
29	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 seemed	xcomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 wrapped	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 remembrances	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 remembrances	det
35	remembrances	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seemed	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 one	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 one	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 one	amod
39	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 remembrances	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 word	cc
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 word	case
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 word	det
43	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 word	amod
44	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 one	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 uttered	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 uttered	aux
47	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 word	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the tears of mother's husband		mother's forehead		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on forehead=Location
2	take	past	mother	no notice of husband			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	is	past	mother's thoughts			with mother's dead child	tree rules
4	seem	past	mother's whole existence		the remembrances of the little one and every innocent word		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	wrap up	participle	mother's whole existence not said here				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	utter speech: other	past · perfect · passive	every innocent word not said here	existence			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
7	notice			husband			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	think		mother				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	exist		mother				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent
10	remember			the little one and every innocent word			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=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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