Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 15

She seemed to have become quite silent; but her eyes spoke, and that was quite enough for Rudy.

Who acts: Babette, eyes, that · What happens: seem, become, speak, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, eyes, that), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	xcomp
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 silent	advmod
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 spoke	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 enough	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 enough	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 enough	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 enough	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 enough	advmod
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 spoke	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 Rudy	case
20	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 enough	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Babette		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	become	to-infinitive · perfect	Babette not said here	silent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past	Babette's eyes		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	that	for Rudy; enough 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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