Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 197

Her youngest child, looked for in the midst of prosperity, had sunk into the grave when only a few weeks old; and at last Christina herself became sick unto death, and lay, forsaken and dying, in a miserable room, amid poverty she might have borne in her younger days, but which was now more painful to her from the luxuries to which she had lately been accustomed.

Who acts: youngest child, child, amid poverty · What happens: look, sink, become, lay, forsake, die · To what, where: grave, last Christina, miserable room, child, Christina, luxuries

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest child, child, amid poverty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 child	nmod:poss
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 midst	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 midst	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midst	det
9	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 prosperity	case
11	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midst	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunk	punct
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunk	aux
14	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 looked	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 grave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grave	det
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunk	obl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 old	mark
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 weeks	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 weeks	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 weeks	amod
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sunk	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 became	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 Christina	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Christina	amod
28	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 became	obl
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
31	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 became	xcomp
32	unto	unto	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lay	cc
36	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 became	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forsaken	punct
38	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 lay	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dying	cc
40	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 forsaken	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 room	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 room	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 room	det
44	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 room	amod
45	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 poverty	punct
47	amid	amid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 poverty	amod
48	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 room	appos
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 borne	nsubj:pass
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 borne	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 borne	aux
52	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 poverty	acl:relcl
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 days	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 days	nmod:poss
55	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 days	amod
56	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 borne	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 painful	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 painful	cc
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 painful	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 painful	cop
61	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 painful	advmod
62	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	63 painful	advmod
63	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lay	advcl
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 her	case
65	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 painful	obl
66	from	from	ADP	_	68 luxuries	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 luxuries	det
68	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 painful	obl
69	to	to	ADP	_	70 which	case
70	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 accustomed	obl
71	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 accustomed	nsubj
72	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 accustomed	aux
73	lately	lately	ADV	_	75 accustomed	advmod
74	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	75 accustomed	aux:pass
75	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	68 luxuries	acl:relcl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Christina's youngest child					for the midst of prosperity	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for midst=Theme
2	sink	past · perfect	Christina's youngest child not said here			the grave			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	child			last Christina		unto death; sick property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lay	infinitive	child not said here			a miserable room			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination
5	forsake	participle	child not said here						tree rules
6	die	gerund	child not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	bear	might · perfect · passive	amid poverty not said here	child			day		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	is	past			Christina	the luxuries	now	painful property	tree rules
9	accustom	past · perfect · passive		child				to the luxuries; lately property	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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