Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 1

A mother sat by her little child; she was very sad, for she feared it would die.

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: sit, be, fear, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, child), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sad	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 sad	advmod
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feared	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 feared	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feared	nsubj
16	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 die	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 die	aux
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 feared	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a mother	by mother's little child	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by child=Location
2	is	past	mother	sad property	tree rules
3	fear	past	mother		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	die	would	child		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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