Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 31

She sat down, and bent her head low over the grave, as if she could see her child through the earth that covered him--her little boy, whose smile was so vividly before her, and the gentle expression of whose eyes, even on his sick-bed, she could not forget.

Who acts: word, earth, smile, gentle expression · What happens: sit down, bend, see, cover, be, not forget · To what, where: head, grave, child, earth

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 (word, earth, smile, gentle expression), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bent	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bent	cc
6	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obj
9	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bent	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 grave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grave	det
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 child	nmod:poss
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 earth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 covered	nsubj
25	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 earth	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 covered	obj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 boy	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 boy	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boy	amod
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 her	punct
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 smile	nmod:poss
33	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 her	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 her	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 vividly	advmod
36	vividly	vividly	ADV	_	38 her	advmod
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 boy	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 forget	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 forget	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 expression	det
42	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 expression	amod
43	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 forget	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 eyes	case
45	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	46 eyes	nmod:poss
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 expression	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bed	punct
48	even	even	ADV	_	53 bed	advmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	53 bed	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 bed	nmod:poss
51	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 bed	amod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 sick	punct
53	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 expression	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bed	punct
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 forget	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 forget	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 forget	advmod
58	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	word						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bend	past	word not said here	word's head		the grave		low property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme over grave=Location
3	see a condition, not said to happen	could	word	word's child		the earth		word's little boy obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	cover	past	the earth		grave				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	is	past	smile				before field	vividly property	tree rules
6	not forget	could	the gentle expression of the gentle expression of the gentle expression's eyes on grave's sick bed's eyes on grave's sick bed						tree rules

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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