Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 3
The sisters mourned as young hearts can mourn, and were especially grieved at the sight of their parents' sorrow.
Who acts: sisters, young hearts, parents · What happens: mourn, grieve, sight, sorrow · To what, where: sight, sorrow
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 (sisters, young hearts, parents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mourned | nsubj |
| 3 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 mourn | mark |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearts | amod |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mourn | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 mourn | aux |
| 8 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mourned | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grieved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grieved | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grieved | aux:pass |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 grieved | advmod |
| 13 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mourned | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grieved | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sorrow | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 parents | nmod:poss |
| 19 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 parents | case |
| 21 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the sisters | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mourn | can | young hearts | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grieve | past · passive | the sisters not said here | the sight of sisters's parents's sorrow | especially property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||
| 4 | sight | sisters's parents's sorrow | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sorrow | sisters's parents | nom sorrow «feeling 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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