Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 87

Now she was gentle and strong as a wife can be; and from her lips came the words of faith: "Whatever He doeth is right and best."

Who acts: mother, kiss · What happens: be, come, do, word · To what, where: words, lips, Whatever, faith

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, kiss), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gentle	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gentle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gentle	cop
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 strong	cc
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gentle	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gentle	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 lips	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lips	nmod:poss
16	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gentle	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 faith	case
21	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 words	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 doeth	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 doeth	punct
24	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 doeth	obj
25	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doeth	nsubj
26	doeth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 right	advcl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 right	cop
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 best	cc
30	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 right	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gentle	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gentle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother			now	gentle property	tree rules
2	be		mother not said here				as a wife	tree rules
3	can	can	mother not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past		the words of faith	mother's lips			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
5	do in a quote	present	kiss	Whatever				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
6	is in a quote	present					right property	tree rules
7	word			faith				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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