Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 13

She continued her task with joy, and prayed for help, while the street-boys sang jeering songs about her, and not a soul comforted her with a kind word.

Who acts: Eliza, street boys, soul · What happens: continue, pray, sing, jeer, not comfort, task · To what, where: task, songs, Eliza

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (Eliza, street boys, soul), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 task	nmod:poss
4	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prayed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayed	cc
9	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 help	case
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prayed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 sang	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boys	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boys	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 street	punct
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prayed	conj
19	jeering	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sang	xcomp
20	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 jeering	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jeering	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comforted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 comforted	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 comforted	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 soul	det
27	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comforted	nsubj
28	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 comforted	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 word	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
32	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 word	amod
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comforted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Eliza	Eliza's task	with joy	tree rules
2	pray	past			for help	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the street boys			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	jeer	gerund	the street boys not said here	songs	about Eliza	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
5	not comfort	past	a soul	Eliza	with a kind word	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	task		Eliza			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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