Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 135

I saw him, looking pale as death, and deeply troubled, standing at her grave; for she was his mother.

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: see, look, stand, be · To what, where: student, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	advcl
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looking	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 troubled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 troubled	cc
11	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	12 troubled	advmod
12	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 troubled	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 grave	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grave	nmod:poss
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mother	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 mother	case
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mother	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mother	cop
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	student			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	look	gerund	I not said here			as death; pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	I not said here		mother's grave		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at grave=Location
4	is	past	mother			for student's mother	tree rules

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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