Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 48

Her brother often came into the room, and would be quite cheerful, in spite of his base conduct; so she dare not say a word to him of her heart's grief.

Who acts: brother, girl · What happens: come, be, say, spite, conduct, word · To what, where: room, spite, word, brother, base conduct, grief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, girl), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cheerful	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cheerful	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cheerful	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cheerful	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 cheerful	advmod
13	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spite	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 spite	case
16	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cheerful	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 conduct	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 conduct	nmod:poss
19	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conduct	compound
20	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spite	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 say	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
24	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 say	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 dare	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 word	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 grief	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grief	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 heart	case
35	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 word	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	girl's brother			the room	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	is	would	girl's brother not said here			spite of brother's base conduct	cheerful property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	girl	a word of girl's heart's grief	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient
4	spite			brother's base conduct				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	conduct		brother					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	word			girl's heart's grief			to brother	nom word «communication transitive»: to=obl of=patient

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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