Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 22

With tearful eyes and mournful glances, the sorrowing daughters and the afflicted husband looked upon her who would not hear their words of comfort; and, indeed, what comforting words could they speak, when they were themselves so full of grief?

Who acts: afflicted husband, comforting words, daughters · What happens: sorrow, afflict, look, not hear, speak, be · To what, where: words, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (afflicted husband, comforting words, daughters), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 eyes	case
2	tearful	tearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eyes	amod
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 looked	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 glances	cc
5	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glances	amod
6	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eyes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughters	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughters	det
9	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 daughters	amod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eyes	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 husband	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 husband	det
13	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 husband	amod
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	21 hear	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hear	nmod:poss
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hear	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 hear	advmod
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 looked	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 comfort	case
25	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 speak	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 speak	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 speak	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 speak	punct
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 speak	obj
32	comforting	comforting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 speak	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 speak	aux
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 speak	nsubj
36	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 looked	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 full	punct
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 full	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 full	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 full	cop
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 were	obj
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 full	advmod
43	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 speak	advcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 grief	case
45	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 full	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sorrow	gerund				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	afflict	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	past	the afflicted husband		with tearful eyes and mournful glances and the sorrowing daughters	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not hear	would		daughters's words of comfort		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other	could	comforting words		indeed property	tree rules
6	is	past	daughters = daughter		of grief; full property	tree rules
7	word		daughters = daughter	comfort		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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