Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 37

"Oh, what would I not give to reach my child!" said the weeping mother; and as she still continued to weep, her eyes fell into the depths of the lake, and became two costly pearls.

Who acts: weeping mother, mother, eyes · What happens: not give, reach, say, continue, weep, fall · To what, where: child, depths, two costly pearls · 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 (weeping mother, mother, eyes), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 give	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 give	advmod
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	xcomp
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reach	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
17	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	compound
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 continued	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 continued	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 continued	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 continued	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 continued	advmod
24	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 weep	mark
26	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 continued	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 weep	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 depths	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 depths	det
33	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fell	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 lake	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 lake	det
36	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 depths	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 became	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 became	cc
39	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 continued	conj
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 pearls	nummod
41	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pearls	amod
42	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 became	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not give in a quote	would	the weeping mother = mother				tree rules
2	reach in a quote	to-infinitive	the weeping mother = mother not said here	my child			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	the weeping mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	continue	past	mother		still		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	mother not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	mother's eyes			into the depths of the lake result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into depth=Result
7	become	past	mother not said here	two costly pearls			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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