Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 24

They at last persuaded her to lie down, and then she would lie as still as if she slept.

Who acts: daughters, word · What happens: persuade, lie down, lie, sleep · To what, where: word, last

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 (daughters, word), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 persuaded	obl
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persuaded	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 lie	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lie	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lie	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lie	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lie	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lie	aux
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persuaded	conj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 still	advmod
16	still	still	ADV	_	14 lie	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 slept	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 slept	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lie	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	persuade	past	daughters = daughter	word	last		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
2	lie down	to-infinitive	word not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	would	word			then; still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	past	word				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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