Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 65

Sorrowfully she laid herself down to sleep; and, after a while, it seemed to her as if the branches of the trees parted over her head, and that the mild eyes of angels looked down upon her from heaven.

Who acts: sunbeam, it, branches, mild eyes · What happens: lay down, sleep, seem, part, look down · To what, where: sunbeam, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam, it, branches, mild 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	Sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 while	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 while	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 parted	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 parted	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 branches	det
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 parted	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 trees	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 branches	nmod
26	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	advcl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 parted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looked	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 looked	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eyes	det
34	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 looked	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 angels	case
37	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eyes	nmod
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 looked	advmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 heaven	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 heaven	nmod:poss
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 heaven	case
43	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	sunbeam	sunbeam				sorrowfully property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result
2	sleep	to-infinitive	sunbeam not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it		sunbeam		while		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	part	past	the branches of the trees			sunbeam's head			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	look down	past	the mild eyes of angels					upon sunbeam's heaven; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon heaven=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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