Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 186

We did not feel at all afraid to look at the corpse of her who had been such a dear, good grandmother.

Who acts: We · What happens: not feel, look, be

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), 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	4 feel	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 afraid	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 afraid	det
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 corpse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corpse	det
12	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	23 grandmother	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandmother	nmod:poss
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 been	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 been	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 grandmother	cop
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 grandmother	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 grandmother	det
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grandmother	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dear	punct
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grandmother	amod
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corpse	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not feel	past · do-support	We	afraid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	look	to-infinitive	We not said here	at the corpse	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at corpse=Theme
3	is	participle		of GRANDMOTHER's dear good grandmother	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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