Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 22

And then, in ungodly despair, she cast herself down into the deep rocky gulf.

Who acts: Babette · What happens: cast down · To what, where: Babette, ungodly despair

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 (Babette), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 cast	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cast	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
5	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 despair	amod
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cast	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 despair	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cast	nsubj
9	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 cast	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 cast	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 gulf	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gulf	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gulf	amod
15	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gulf	amod
16	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cast	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast down	past	Babette	Babette		ungodly despair	then	into the deep rocky gulf	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent herself=Material into gulf=Product

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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