Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 167

Babette became quite silent after hearing all this; it was almost too much, and it troubled her.

Who acts: Babette, deal · What happens: become, hear, be, trouble · To what, where: this, arm

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, deal), 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	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 silent	advmod
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 silent	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 this	det:predet
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hearing	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 much	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 much	cop
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 troubled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 troubled	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 troubled	nsubj
18	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 troubled	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Babette		silent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hear	gerund	Babette not said here	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	is	past	deal		almost, much property	tree rules
4	trouble	past	deal	arm		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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