Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 56

She could hear the sounds of music, but she heard not the words, the Word in which she was to trust.

Who acts: mother · What happens: hear, not hear, be · To what, where: sounds, words, Word

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sounds	det
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 music	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 heard	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Word	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Word	det
17	Word	Word	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 words	appos
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 trust	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trust	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 trust	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 trust	mark
23	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Word	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	mother	the sounds of music			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	not hear	past	mother	the words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	is	past	mother	the Word not said here	the Word	trust property	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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