Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 10
Then her head became heavy, for she had not closed her eyes for three days and nights, and she slept, but only for a moment.
Who acts: head · What happens: become, not close, sleep · To what, where: eyes
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 (head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 closed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 closed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 closed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 closed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 closed | advmod |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 became | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 closed | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 closed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nights | cc |
| 18 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 days | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slept | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slept | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slept | nsubj |
| 22 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moment | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 moment | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 moment | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 moment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slept | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | manner's head | then | heavy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | not close | past · perfect | head | head's eyes | day | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | head | moment | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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