Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 45

Then the cloak was removed, and she found herself in a large hall, of wide-spreading dimensions, in which there was a subdued light, like twilight, reigning, and in a moment her child appeared before her, smiling, and more beautiful than ever; with a silent cry she pressed him to her heart.

Who acts: spectre, child · What happens: remove, find, subdue, be, reign, appear · To what, where: cloak, spectre, large hall, subdued light, churchyard

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 (spectre, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 removed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 removed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 removed	aux:pass
5	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 removed	parataxis
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 found	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hall	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hall	amod
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dimensions	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 dimensions	case
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spreading	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 wide	punct
19	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dimensions	compound
20	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 found	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 was	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 light	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 light	det
27	subdued	subdue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 light	amod
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dimensions	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 twilight	punct
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 twilight	case
31	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 light	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reigning	punct
33	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 light	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 appeared	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 appeared	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 moment	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moment	det
38	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 appeared	obl
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 child	nmod:poss
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 appeared	nsubj
41	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
42	before	before	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 appeared	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 smiling	punct
45	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 appeared	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 beautiful	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 beautiful	cc
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 beautiful	advmod
49	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 smiling	amod
50	than	than	ADP	_	51 ever	case
51	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 beautiful	obl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 pressed	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	56 cry	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 cry	det
55	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 cry	amod
56	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pressed	obl
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pressed	nsubj
58	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 appeared	parataxis
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pressed	obj
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 heart	case
61	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 heart	nmod:poss
62	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pressed	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 removed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past · passive		the cloak		then		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	find	past	spectre	spectre	a large hall		of spreading dimensions	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
3	subdue	participle						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		a subdued light and twilight				tree rules
5	reign	gerund						tree rules
6	appear	past	spectre's child			before spectre; moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location
7	smile	gerund	spectre's child not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	press	past	spectre	churchyard			with a silent cry; to spectre's heart	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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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