Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 54
But the mother saw nothing of what the child pointed out, only the dark curtain.
Who acts: mother, child · What happens: see, point out · To what, where: nothing
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pointed | nsubj |
| 10 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pointed | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 curtain | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 curtain | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 curtain | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 curtain | amod |
| 16 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the mother | nothing | the dark curtain obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | point out | participle | the child | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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