Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 182

We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became quieter and calmer, and on her countenance beamed happiness and peace.

Who acts: We, GRANDMOTHER, breathing · What happens: hear, sleep, become, beam, breathe · To what, where: gentle breathing, happiness, countenance

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 (We, GRANDMOTHER, breathing), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breathing	nmod:poss
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breathing	amod
6	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	13 became	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
14	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 became	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 calmer	cc
16	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 quieter	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beamed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beamed	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 countenance	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 countenance	nmod:poss
21	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beamed	obl
22	beamed	beam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
23	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beamed	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 peace	cc
25	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 happiness	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	We	GRANDMOTHER's gentle breathing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer breathing=Stimulus
2	sleep	past	GRANDMOTHER				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	breathing			gradually, quiet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	beam	past	breathing not said here	happiness and peace	GRANDMOTHER's countenance		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme
5	breathe		GRANDMOTHER				nom breathing «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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