Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 48

Over everything reigned a stillness, not of sleep or of death, but as if Nature were holding her breath, that her image might be photographed on the blue vault of heaven.

Who acts: Nature · What happens: reign, hold, photograph, image · To what, where: stillness, everything, breath, image, blue vault

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 (Nature), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 everything	case
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 reigned	obl
3	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stillness	det
5	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reigned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sleep	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sleep	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reigned	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 death	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 death	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleep	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 holding	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 holding	cc
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Nature	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 Nature	mark
17	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 holding	aux
19	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 reigned	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 breath	nmod:poss
21	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 photographed	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 photographed	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 image	nmod:poss
25	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 photographed	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 photographed	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 photographed	aux:pass
28	photographed	photograph	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reigned	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 vault	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 vault	det
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 vault	amod
32	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 photographed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 heaven	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vault	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reign	past		a stillness	everything	of sleep or death	tree rules
2	hold	past · progressive		Nature's breath		as Nature	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	photograph	might · passive		Nature's image	the blue vault of heaven		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on vault=Destination
4	image		Nature				nom image «cognition transitive»: 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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