Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 37

"Down to my child," she repeated; and tones of despair and entreaty sounded in the words.

Who acts: word, tones · What happens: repeat, sound, intonate · To what, where: words, despair

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, tones), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Down	punct
2	Down	down	ADV	_	9 repeated	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Down	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 repeated	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 repeated	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 repeated	nsubj
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sounded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tones	cc
12	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sounded	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 despair	case
14	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tones	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 entreaty	cc
16	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 despair	conj
17	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 repeated	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 words	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 words	det
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sounded	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	word			down property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	sound	past	tones of despair and entreaty		the words		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location
3	intonate			despair and entreaty			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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