Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 5
Day and night she had attended to the sick child, nursing and carrying it in her bosom, as a part of herself.
Who acts: Day, mother · What happens: attend, nurse, carry, bosom · To what, where: child, bosom
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 (Day, 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 night | cc |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 attended | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attended | aux |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nursing | punct |
| 12 | nursing | nurse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 attended | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carrying | cc |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 nursing | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carrying | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bosom | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 part | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nursing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past · perfect | Day and night | to the sick child | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nurse | gerund | Day and night not said here | as a part of mother | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Day and night not said here | child | mother's bosom | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | bosom | mother | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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