Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 40

But the poor mother could not see, for she had wept her eyes into the lake. "

Who acts: poor mother, mother · What happens: not see, weep · To what, where: eyes, lake

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 (poor mother, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 wept	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wept	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wept	aux
12	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 see	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wept	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	the poor mother						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	weep	past · perfect	mother	mother's eyes		the lake			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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