Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 22

With pious gratitude the girl looked upon this glorious work of God, and bent down over one of the branches, that she might examine the flower and inhale the sweet perfume.

Who acts: girl, God · What happens: look, bend down, examine, inhale, work · To what, where: flower, sweet perfume

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, God), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 gratitude	case
2	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gratitude	amod
3	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 work	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 work	det
9	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 God	case
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 work	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bent	cc
15	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 looked	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 bent	compound:prt
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bent	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 examine	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 examine	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 examine	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 examine	aux
26	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bent	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flower	det
28	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 examine	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 inhale	cc
30	inhale	inhale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 examine	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 perfume	det
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 perfume	amod
33	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 inhale	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the girl		with pious gratitude; upon this glorious work of God	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon work=Theme
2	bend down	participle	the girl not said here		over one of the branches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over one=Location
3	examine	might	girl	the flower		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
4	inhale	present	girl not said here	the sweet perfume		vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme
5	work		God			nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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