Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 68

"How cruel," murmured Babette; "why should he die just as the day of happiness drew near?

Who acts: Babette, flash, day · What happens: murmur, die, draw · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Babette, flash, day), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 cruel	advmod
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 murmured	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cruel	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct
6	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 murmured	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 die	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 murmured	conj
14	just	just	ADV	_	20 drew	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 drew	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 happiness	case
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 die	advcl
21	near	near	ADV	_	20 drew	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	murmur speech: other	past	Babette		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die in a quote	should	flash		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	draw in a quote	past	the day of happiness	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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