Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 82

Then there was a terrible crash, as of a world crumbling to pieces, and the angel-child was rising from the earth, and holding her by the sleeve so tightly that she felt herself lifted from the ground; but, on the other hand, something heavy hung to her feet and dragged her down, and it seemed as if hundreds of women were clinging to her, and crying, "If thou art to be saved, we must be saved too.

Who acts: world, angel child, crash, it, hundreds · What happens: crumble, rise, hold, feel, lift, be · To what, where: earth, crash, ground, other hand, we · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (world, angel child, crash, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 hung	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crash	det
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crash	amod
6	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 world	punct
8	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 world	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crash	appos
12	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 world	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crumbling	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rising	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rising	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
18	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 child	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 angel	punct
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rising	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rising	aux
22	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 was	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 earth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rising	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 holding	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 holding	cc
28	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rising	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 holding	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 sleeve	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sleeve	det
32	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holding	obl
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 tightly	advmod
34	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	28 holding	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 felt	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 felt	nsubj
37	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 holding	advcl
38	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 felt	obj
39	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 felt	xcomp
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 ground	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ground	det
42	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lifted	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 hung	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 hung	cc
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 but	punct
46	on	on	ADP	_	49 hand	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hand	det
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hand	amod
49	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hung	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 something	punct
51	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 hand	conj
52	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 something	amod
53	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 feet	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 feet	nmod:poss
56	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 hung	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 dragged	cc
58	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 hung	conj
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dragged	obj
60	down	down	ADP	_	58 dragged	compound:prt
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 seemed	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 seemed	cc
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 seemed	nsubj
64	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 hung	conj
65	as	as	SCONJ	_	71 clinging	mark
66	if	if	SCONJ	_	71 clinging	mark
67	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 clinging	nsubj
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 women	case
69	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 hundreds	nmod
70	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 clinging	aux
71	clinging	cling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 seemed	xcomp
72	to	to	ADP	_	73 her	case
73	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 clinging	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 crying	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 crying	cc
76	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 seemed	xcomp
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 crying	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	89 saved	punct
79	If	if	SCONJ	_	81 art	mark
80	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	81 art	nsubj
81	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 saved	advcl
82	to	to	PART	_	84 saved	mark
83	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	84 saved	aux:pass
84	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	81 art	xcomp
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 art	punct
86	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	89 saved	nsubj
87	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	89 saved	aux
88	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	89 saved	aux:pass
89	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	76 crying	conj
90	too	too	ADV	_	89 saved	advmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	crumble	gerund	a world not said here				to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result
2	rise	past · progressive	the angel child			the earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location
3	hold	gerund	the angel child not said here	crash			by the sleeve; tightly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by sleeve=Location
4	feel	past	crash	crash				tree rules
5	lift	participle	crash not said here			the ground		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from ground=Destination
6	is	past				the other hand	to crash's feet; hang property	tree rules
7	drag down	past		crash				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	cling a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	hundreds of women		crash			vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme
10	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	save in a quote	to-infinitive · passive						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»
12	save in a quote	must · passive		we				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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