Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 19
She looked at them, but she saw them not; for her thoughts were far away from the domestic hearth.
Who acts: mother · What happens: look, not see, be, think · To what, where: daughters, domestic hearth
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 saw | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 thoughts | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 away | cop |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hearth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hearth | det |
| 20 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hearth | amod |
| 21 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | mother | at daughters = daughter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past | mother | daughters = daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the domestic hearth | for mother's thoughts; away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think | mother | nom thought «cognition 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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