Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 33

Then she laid herself down to drink up the water of the lake, which was of course impossible for any human being to do; but the bereaved mother thought that perhaps a miracle might take place to help her. "

Who acts: Death, lake, bereaved mother, miracle · What happens: lay down, drink up, be, do, think, take · To what, where: Death, water, place · 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 (Death, lake, bereaved mother, miracle), 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	3 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drink	mark
7	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 drink	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 impossible	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 impossible	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 impossible	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 impossible	case
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 of	fixed
19	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 any	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 impossible	obl
22	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 any	acl
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 human	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 being	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
29	bereaved	bereaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mother	amod
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 take	mark
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	35 miracle	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 miracle	det
35	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	ccomp
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 help	mark
40	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	advcl
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 help	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Death	Death		then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result
2	drink up	to-infinitive	Death not said here	the water of the lake				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	is	past	the lake				for any; impossible property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the lake not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	the bereaved mother					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	take	might	a miracle	place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
7	help	to-infinitive	a miracle not said here		Death			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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