Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 33

As she had sat by his little cot, so now she sat by his grave; and here she could weep freely, and her tears fell upon it.

Who acts: word, tears · What happens: sit, weep, fall · To what, where: cot

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, tears), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	aux
4	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 cot	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cot	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cot	amod
8	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 grave	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grave	nmod:poss
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 weep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 here	cc
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 weep	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 weep	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 weep	aux
22	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	conj
23	freely	freely	ADV	_	22 weep	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tears	nmod:poss
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 weep	advcl
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect	word			by grave's little cot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cot=Location
2	sit	past	word		now	by grave's grave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
3	weep	could	word	here		freely property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	word's tears	cot			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location

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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