Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 15

For nights previously the mother had not slept, but in the morning twilight of this day she sunk from weariness into a deep sleep; in the mean time the coffin was carried into a distant room, and there nailed down, that she might not hear the blows of the hammer.

Who acts: mother, hammer · What happens: not sleep, sink, carry, nail down, not hear, blow · To what, where: nights, morning twilight, coffin, distant room, blows

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 (mother, hammer), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 nights	case
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slept	nsubj:pass
3	previously	previously	ADV	_	2 nights	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slept	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 slept	advmod
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sunk	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sunk	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 twilight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 twilight	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twilight	compound
14	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sunk	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twilight	nmod
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	8 slept	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 weariness	case
21	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sunk	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sleep	det
24	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sleep	amod
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sunk	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 coffin	det
32	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 carried	aux:pass
34	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 slept	parataxis
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 room	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 room	det
37	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 room	amod
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nailed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 nailed	cc
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 nailed	advmod
42	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 carried	conj
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 nailed	compound:prt
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hear	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 hear	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hear	nsubj
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 hear	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 hear	advmod
49	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 nailed	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 blows	det
51	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 hear	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 hammer	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 hammer	det
54	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 blows	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	past · perfect · passive		nights				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sink	past	mother		the morning twilight of this day		from weariness; into a deep sleep	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	carry	past · passive		the coffin	a distant room	time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	nail down	participle			there			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	not hear	might	mother	the blows of the hammer				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus
6	blow		the hammer					nom blow «act 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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