Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 75

Thus she sat lamenting in the dark night, while through the deep stillness the last words of Rudy seemed to ring in her ears. "

Who acts: thread, last words · What happens: sit, lament, seem, ring, word · To what, where: deep stillness, ears, Rudy

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 (thread, last words), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lamenting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 seemed	mark
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 stillness	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stillness	det
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stillness	amod
14	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seemed	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Rudy	case
19	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ring	mark
22	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 ears	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ears	nmod:poss
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ring	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	thread				thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lament	gerund	thread not said here			night		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	seem	past	the last words of Rudy		the deep stillness			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	ring	to-infinitive	the last words of Rudy not said here		thread's ears			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
5	word			Rudy				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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