Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 32
How full of meaning that glance had been, as she leaned over him, holding in hers the pale hand which he had no longer strength to raise!
Who acts: word, grave · What happens: learn, hold, have, raise · To what, where: pale hand
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, grave), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 full | advmod |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 meaning | case |
| 4 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 full | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 glance | det |
| 6 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 been | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 meaning | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaned | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 leaned | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leaned | nsubj |
| 12 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leaned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holding | punct |
| 16 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 leaned | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hers | case |
| 18 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 holding | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 20 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holding | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hand | acl:relcl |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 longer | advmod |
| 26 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 strength | advmod |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 raise | mark |
| 29 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 strength | acl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | word | over grave | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | word not said here | the pale hand | in word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in her=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | grave | the pale hand | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | raise | to-infinitive | grave not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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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