Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 24

Babette heard the noise, and glanced through the thin window curtain; but when she saw the man in white, and guessed who he was, her little heart beat with terror as well as anger.

Who acts: Babette, bird · What happens: hear, glance, see, guess · To what, where: noise, man, white

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, bird), 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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 glanced	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 glanced	cc
7	glanced	glance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heard	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 curtain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 curtain	det
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 curtain	amod
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 curtain	compound
12	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glanced	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 white	case
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guessed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 guessed	cc
24	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 guessed	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 who	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beat	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beat	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beat	amod
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	compound
32	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guessed	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 terror	case
34	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	nmod
35	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	38 anger	cc
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 as	fixed
37	as	as	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
38	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Babette	the noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	glance	participle	Babette not said here			through the thin window curtain	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through curtain=Theme
3	see	past	bird	the man	white		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	guess	past	Babette not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=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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