Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 61

Poor Babette sat with her hands clasped, and her head bowed down, dumb with grief; she had ceased to weep and cry for help.

Who acts: Poor Babette, hands, head · What happens: sit, clasp, bow down, cease, weep, cry · To what, where: Babette

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Babette, hands, head), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Babette	amod
2	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 clasped	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clasped	nsubj
7	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bowed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bowed	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bowed	nsubj
12	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 bowed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dumb	punct
15	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowed	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 grief	case
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dumb	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ceased	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ceased	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ceased	aux
21	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 weep	mark
23	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ceased	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 weep	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 help	case
27	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cry	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Poor Babette			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clasp	past	Babette's hands			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	bow down	past	Babette's head		down, dumb property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cease	past · perfect · passive		Babette		tree rules
5	weep	to-infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	infinitive			for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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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