Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 107
Oh, hear them not;" and her head sank on her bosom.
Who acts: you, head, mother · What happens: not hear, sink, bosom · To what, where: prayers, bosom · 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 (you, head, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 hear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hear | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sank | cc |
| 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 | 11 sank | nsubj |
| 11 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bosom | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sank | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | imperative | you not said here | prayers = prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sink in a quote | past | mother's head | mother's bosom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bosom in a quote | mother | nom bosom «state 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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