Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 157

A grave! dig me a grave!" still sounded in her ears; she was fearful that the cock might crow, and the first red streak appear in the east, before she had finished her work; and then she would be lost.

Who acts: grave, name, cock, first red streak · What happens: dig, sound, be, crow, appear, finish · To what, where: me, ears, east, work, name

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave, name, cock, first red streak), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 grave	punct
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dig	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 sounded	advmod
11	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ears	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sounded	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fearful	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fearful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fearful	cop
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dig	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 crow	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cock	det
21	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crow	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 crow	aux
23	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fearful	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 appear	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 streak	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 streak	amod
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 streak	amod
29	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	nsubj
30	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 east	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 east	det
33	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 finished	punct
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 finished	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 finished	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 finished	aux
38	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 appear	advcl
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 work	nmod:poss
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 finished	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 lost	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lost	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 lost	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lost	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 lost	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 lost	aux:pass
47	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dig	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	infinitive	a grave		me				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result
2	sound in a quote	past	a grave not said here			name's ears	still		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3	is in a quote	past	name					fearful property	tree rules
4	crow in a quote	might	the cock						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	appear in a quote	present	the first red streak			the east			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location
6	finish in a quote	past · perfect	name	name's work					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality
7	lose in a quote	would · passive		name			then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	work in a quote		name						nom work «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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