Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 25

One night, when her husband listened, as he often did, to her breathing, he quite believed that she had at length found rest and relief in sleep.

Who acts: husband, word · What happens: listen, do, believe, have, find, breathe · To what, where: length · 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 (husband, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listened	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 listened	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 listened	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listened	nsubj
7	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 did	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 did	advmod
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listened	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 breathing	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 breathing	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breathing	nmod:poss
16	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 believed	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 believed	nsubj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 believed	advmod
20	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listened	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 believed	ccomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 length	case
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rest	amod
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 length	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 relief	cc
29	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 length	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 relief	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	word's husband		night		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	husband			to word's breathing; often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe	past	husband				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	word	length found rest and relief in sleep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	find	participle					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	breathe		word				nom breathing «act intransitive»: 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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