Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 66

The sorrowing mother bent over the little plants, and heard the human heart beating in each, and recognized the beatings of her child's heart among millions of others.

Who acts: sorrowing mother · What happens: bend, hear, recognize, beat · To what, where: sorrowing mother, little plants, human heart beating, each, beatings, heart

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 (sorrowing 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	sorrowing	sorrowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mother	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 plants	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plants	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beating	det
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beating	amod
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beating	compound
15	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beating	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 recognized	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 recognized	cc
20	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beatings	det
22	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 recognized	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 heart	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heart	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 child	case
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beatings	nmod
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 millions	case
29	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 recognized	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 others	case
31	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 millions	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	participle		the sorrowing mother not said here	the little plants		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plant=Location
2	hear	past	the sorrowing mother	the human heart beating	each		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus
3	recognize	past	the sorrowing mother not said here	the beatings of mother's child's heart		among millions of others	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus
4	beat			mother's child's heart			nom beating «act transitive»: of=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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