Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 75
No; their sighs and lamentations still sounded from above; and she had nearly forgotten them, for the sake of him who was dead.
Who acts: sighs, mother, sake, daughters · What happens: sound, forget, be, sigh · To what, where: 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 (sighs, mother, sake, daughters), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sighs | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sighs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sounded | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lamentations | cc |
| 6 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sighs | conj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 sounded | advmod |
| 8 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 above | case |
| 10 | above | above | ADV | _ | 8 sounded | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgotten | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgotten | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgotten | aux |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 forgotten | advmod |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sounded | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgotten | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sake | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 sake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sake | det |
| 21 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgotten | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sake | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dead | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sake | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | daughters's sighs and lamentations | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | mother | sighs = sigh | for the sake of husband; nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the sake of husband | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sigh | daughters = daughter | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=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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