Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 2

Two daughters, the elder of whom was going to be confirmed, still remained: they were both good, charming girls; but the lost child always seems the dearest; and when it is youngest, and a son, it makes the trial still more heavy.

Who acts: elder, Two daughters, lost child, child · What happens: go, confirm, remain, be, charm, lose · To what, where: girls, trial

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 (elder, Two daughters, lost child, child), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 daughters	nummod
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 good	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 elder	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elder	det
5	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughters	appos
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 elder	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 confirmed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 confirmed	aux:pass
12	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 going	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 remained	advmod
15	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 confirmed	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 good	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
19	both	both	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 charming	punct
22	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 good	advcl
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 charming	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 seems	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 seems	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 child	det
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 child	amod
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seems	nsubj
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 seems	advmod
30	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dearest	det
32	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 seems	xcomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 youngest	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 youngest	cc
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 youngest	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 youngest	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 youngest	cop
38	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 good	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 son	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 son	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 son	det
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 good	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 makes	punct
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 makes	nsubj
45	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 trial	det
47	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 makes	obj
48	still	still	ADV	_	49 more	advmod
49	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 heavy	advmod
50	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 makes	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the elder				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	the elder not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
3	remain	participle	the elder not said here		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Two daughters			both, good property	tree rules
5	charm	gerund	Two daughters not said here	girls			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer
6	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	seem	present	the lost child			always, dear property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	is	present	child			young property	tree rules
9	make	present	child	the trial		heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material trial=Product

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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