Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 15

They went out of the house and stepped downwards, always downwards, and it seemed to Babette as if she had a weight on her heart which continually grew heavier.

Who acts: words, it, Babette, heart · What happens: go out, step, seem, have, grow · To what, where: house, Babette, weight, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, it, Babette, heart), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 house	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stepped	cc
8	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	8 stepped	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 downwards	punct
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 downwards	advmod
12	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	8 stepped	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Babette	case
18	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seemed	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 weight	det
24	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 heart	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 grew	nsubj
29	continually	continually	ADV	_	30 grew	advmod
30	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heart	acl:relcl
31	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 grew	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	words = word	the house				tree rules
2	step	past	words = word not said here				downwards property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	it		Babette			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Babette	a weight		Babette's heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
5	grow	past	Babette's heart				continually, heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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