Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 77

Her tears and her prayers echoed through the dark void that surrounded the tormented captive soul, and the unexpected mercy was obtained for it through an angel's tears.

Who acts: tears, woman · What happens: echo, surround, torment, obtain, pray · To what, where: dark void, unexpected mercy, tears

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 (tears, woman), 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 tears	nmod:poss
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 echoed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 prayers	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prayers	nmod:poss
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tears	conj
6	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 void	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 void	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 void	amod
10	void	void	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 echoed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 surrounded	nsubj:pass
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 void	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soul	det
14	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 soul	amod
15	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 soul	amod
16	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 surrounded	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 obtained	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 obtained	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mercy	det
20	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mercy	amod
21	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtained	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obtained	aux:pass
23	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 echoed	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 obtained	obl
26	through	through	ADP	_	30 tears	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 angel	det
28	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tears	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 angel	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 obtained	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 echoed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	echo	past	woman's tears and woman's prayers		the dark void		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through void=Location
2	surround	participle · passive		the dark void			tree rules
3	torment	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	obtain	past · passive		the unexpected mercy	a angel's tears	for tear	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for it=Asset
5	pray		woman				nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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