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

From day to day his brow became darker, and Eliza saw it and did not understand the reason, but it alarmed her and made her heart tremble for her brothers.

Who acts: brow, Eliza · What happens: become, see, not understand, alarm, make · To what, where: brow, reason, Eliza, heart tremble

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 (brow, Eliza), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 day	case
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brow	nmod:poss
6	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
11	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 understand	cc
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 understand	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 alarmed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 alarmed	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 alarmed	nsubj
23	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 alarmed	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tremble	compound
29	tremble	tremble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 brothers	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brothers	nmod:poss
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	king's brow			day	dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	see	past	Eliza	brow				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not understand	past · do-support	Eliza not said here	the reason				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
4	alarm	past	brow	Eliza				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	make	past	king's brow not said here	heart tremble	Eliza		for Eliza's brothers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary tremble=Product for brother=Asset

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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