Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 72

And he, poor boy, wept also, as he sat alone by the river, near to and watching the damp linen.

Who acts: Heaven · What happens: weep, sit, watch · To what, where: damp linen

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 (Heaven), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wept	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 he	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	also	also	ADV	_	7 wept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 sat	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wept	conj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watching	punct
18	near	near	ADP	_	21 watching	mark
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 near	fixed
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 watching	cc
21	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sat	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 linen	det
23	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 linen	amod
24	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watching	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Heaven			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Heaven		by the river; alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
3	watch	gerund	Heaven not said here	the damp linen		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Theme

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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