Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 78
All around her became cold; she lifted her head, and saw that she was lying in the churchyard, on the grave of her child.
Who acts: mother · What happens: become, lift, see, lie · To what, where: head, churchyard · 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), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 became | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 became | nmod:poss |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lying | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lying | aux |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 churchyard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 churchyard | det |
| 20 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grave | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 grave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grave | det |
| 24 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 child | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 child | nmod:poss |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grave | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | all, cold property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | mother | mother's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | mother | the churchyard | on the grave of mother's child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in churchyard=Location |
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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