Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 2

It was quite pale, and its little eyes were closed, and sometimes it drew a heavy deep breath, almost like a sigh; and then the mother gazed more sadly than ever on the poor little creature.

Who acts: child, mother · What happens: be, close, draw, gaze · To what, where: little eyes, heavy deep breath

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 (child, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pale	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 pale	advmod
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 closed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 closed	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 closed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 closed	aux:pass
11	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pale	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 drew	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pale	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 breath	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
20	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sigh	punct
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 sigh	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 sigh	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sigh	det
25	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breath	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 gazed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gazed	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 gazed	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gazed	nsubj
31	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	conj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 sadly	advmod
33	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	31 gazed	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 sadly	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	40 creature	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 creature	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 creature	amod
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 creature	amod
40	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gazed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	child			pale property	tree rules
2	close	past · passive		child's little eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	draw	past	child	a heavy deep breath and a sigh		sometimes property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
4	gaze	past	the mother		then	on the poor little creature; sadly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on creature=Theme

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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