Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 9
Thus in her great grief she fell away from her faith in God, and dark thoughts arose in her mind respecting death and a future state.
Who acts: mother, dark thoughts · What happens: fall away, arise, respect, mind · To what, where: mind, death
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, dark thoughts), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grief | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grief | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grief | amod |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 faith | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 faith | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 faith | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arose | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arose | cc |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thoughts | amod |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 arose | nsubj |
| 18 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mind | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arose | obl |
| 22 | respecting | respect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 arose | advcl |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 respecting | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 state | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 state | det |
| 26 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 state | amod |
| 27 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 death | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall away | past | mother | from mother's faith in God; in mother's great grief; away, thus property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in grief=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | dark thoughts | mother's mind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | ||||
| 3 | respect | gerund | dark thoughts not said here | death and a future state | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mind | mother | nom mind «cognition 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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