Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 91

Then she looked into the well; and it was a glorious sight to behold how one of them became a blessing to the world, and how much happiness and joy it spread around.

Who acts: Death, well, one, much happiness · What happens: look, be, behold, become, spread around · To what, where: glorious sight, blessing

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, well, one, much happiness), 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 looked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sight	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sight	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sight	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sight	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sight	det
12	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sight	amod
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 behold	mark
15	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sight	acl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 became	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 became	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nmod
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 behold	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blessing	det
22	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blessing	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spread	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spread	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happiness	amod
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spread	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 joy	cc
32	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happiness	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spread	nsubj
34	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
35	around	around	ADV	_	34 spread	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Death		then	into the well	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
2	is a	past	well	a glorious sight			tree rules
3	behold	to-infinitive	Death not said here				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	become	past	one of eyes	a blessing to the world			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	spread around	past	much happiness and joy			around property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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