Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 74

In the last hour of existence the events of a whole life often appear before us; and this hour the old woman remembered how, when a child, she had shed tears over the story of Inge, and she prayed for her now.

Who acts: events, hour, child · What happens: appear, remember, shed, pray · To what, where: child, story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (events, hour, child), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hour	amod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appear	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 existence	case
6	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hour	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 events	det
8	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appear	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 life	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 events	nmod
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 appear	advmod
14	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 appear	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 remembered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 remembered	cc
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remembered	nsubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remembered	nsubj
24	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 appear	conj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 remembered	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shed	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 shed	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shed	nsubj:pass
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 child	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shed	aux
33	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 remembered	conj
34	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shed	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 story	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 story	det
37	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shed	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Inge	case
39	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 story	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 prayed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 prayed	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 prayed	nsubj
43	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 remembered	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 prayed	obl
46	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 prayed	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	the events of a whole life			before us; hour	often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location
2	remember	past	this hour					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	shed	past · perfect · passive		a child	the story of Inge			tree rules
4	pray	past	child			now	for woman	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for she=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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