Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 55
She looked with earthly eyes, and could not see as the child saw,--he whom God has called to be with Himself.
Who acts: mother, child · What happens: look, not see, see, call, be · To what, where: curtain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 called | obj |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 see | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 Himself | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Himself | cop |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Himself | case |
| 25 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | mother | with earthly eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | call | present · perfect · passive | curtain | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme whom=Result | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | with curtain | tree rules |
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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