Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 73

She seemed to recognize some of them, as they floated through the regions of death towards the dark curtain, where they vanished.

Who acts: mother, sighs · What happens: seem, recognize, float, vanish · To what, where: some, regions

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, sighs), 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 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 recognize	mark
4	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 recognize	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 some	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 floated	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 floated	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 floated	nsubj
11	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 regions	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 regions	det
14	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 floated	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 regions	nmod
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 curtain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 curtain	det
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 curtain	amod
20	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vanished	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 vanished	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 vanished	nsubj
24	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 curtain	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	mother				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	recognize	to-infinitive	mother not said here	some			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus
3	float	past	sighs = sigh		the regions of death	towards the dark curtain	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through region=Source towards curtain=Trajectory
4	vanish	past	sighs = sigh				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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