Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 23

It seemed as if she would never again know sleep, and yet it would have been her best friend, one who would have strengthened her body and poured peace into her soul.

Who acts: It, word, sleep · What happens: seem, know, be, strengthen, pour · To what, where: sleep, best friend, body, peace, soul

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 (It, word, sleep), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 know	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 know	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 friend	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 friend	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 friend	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 friend	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 friend	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 friend	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 friend	cop
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 friend	nmod:poss
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 friend	amod
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 friend	appos
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 strengthened	nsubj:pass
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 strengthened	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 strengthened	aux
26	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 one	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 body	nmod:poss
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strengthened	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 poured	cc
30	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 strengthened	conj
31	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 poured	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 soul	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 soul	nmod:poss
34	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 poured	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seem	past	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	know a condition, not said to happen	would	word	sleep		again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus
3	is a	would · perfect	sleep	word's best friend		yet	tree rules
4	strengthen	would · perfect · passive		word's body			tree rules
5	pour	past		peace	word's soul		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme into soul=Destination

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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