Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 67
And in a few moments deep sighs were heard, as of children weeping. "
Who acts: children · What happens: hear, weep · To what, where: deep sighs
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 (children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 moments | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moments | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moments | amod |
| 5 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sighs | amod |
| 7 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 children | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl |
| 14 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 children | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | deep sighs | moment | as children | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | weep | gerund | children not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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