Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 60

Every one shuddered, for it was terrible to look at; but the princess sat like a statue, and could not utter a single word.

Who acts: head, one · What happens: shudder, be, look, sit, not utter · To what, where: one, single word

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, one), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	nsubj
3	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 terrible	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 terrible	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 terrible	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 terrible	cop
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shuddered	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 terrible	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 look	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 statue	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 statue	det
19	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 utter	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 utter	cc
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 utter	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 utter	advmod
24	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sat	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 word	det
26	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 word	amod
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 utter	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shudder	participle		every one not said here		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	head		terrible property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	head not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sit	past	every one		like a statue	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not utter speech: other	could	every one not said here	a single word		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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