Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 4

The father's heart was bowed down, but the mother sunk completely under the deep grief.

Who acts: mother · What happens: bow down, sink · To what, where: heart, deep grief

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 (mother), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bowed	aux:pass
6	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 bowed	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sunk	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sunk	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunk	nsubj
12	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bowed	conj
13	completely	completely	ADV	_	12 sunk	advmod
14	under	under	ADP	_	17 grief	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grief	det
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grief	amod
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunk	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow down	past · passive		the father's heart					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	sink	past	the mother			the deep grief		completely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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