Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 179

Yes, she is smiling at the memory of that day, and many thoughts and recollections of the past; but the handsome young man is gone, and the rose has withered in the old book, and grandmother is sitting there, again an old woman, looking down upon the withered rose in the book.

Who acts: GRANDMOTHER, many thoughts · What happens: smile, be, wither, sit, look down, recollect · To what, where: memory, rose, old book, old woman, past

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 (GRANDMOTHER, many thoughts), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 smiling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smiling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smiling	aux
5	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 memory	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 memory	det
8	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smiling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 memory	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gone	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thoughts	amod
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gone	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 recollections	cc
17	recollections	recollection	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thoughts	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 past	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 past	det
20	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recollections	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 gone	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gone	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	cop
28	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smiling	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 withered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 withered	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rose	det
32	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 withered	nsubj:pass
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 withered	aux
34	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gone	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 book	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 book	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 book	amod
38	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 withered	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sitting	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sitting	cc
41	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sitting	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 sitting	aux
43	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 gone	conj
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 sitting	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 woman	punct
46	again	again	ADV	_	49 woman	advmod
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 woman	det
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	amod
49	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sitting	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 looking	punct
51	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 sitting	advcl
52	down	down	ADV	_	51 looking	advmod
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 rose	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 rose	det
55	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 rose	amod
56	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 looking	obl
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 book	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 book	det
59	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rose	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smiling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smile	present · progressive	GRANDMOTHER		the memory of that day		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	many thoughts and recollections of the past			gone property	tree rules
3	wither	present · perfect · passive		the rose	the old book		tree rules
4	sit	present · progressive	grandmother	a old woman	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look down	gerund	grandmother not said here			upon the withered rose in the book; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon rose=Theme
6	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	recollect			the past			nom recollection «cognition transitive»: 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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