Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 11

I cannot any longer be an idle spectator of those beaming eyes, which express such a deep and earnest longing for the words of the gospel," said he.

Who acts: I, idle spectator, deep earnest · What happens: not any, be, beam, express, long, say · To what, where: idle spectator, gospel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, idle spectator, deep earnest), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 any	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 any	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 any	advmod
4	any	any	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 spectator	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 spectator	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spectator	det
8	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spectator	amod
9	spectator	spectator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 any	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 eyes	det
12	beaming	beam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spectator	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 express	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 express	nsubj
16	express	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spectator	parataxis
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 earnest	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 earnest	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 earnest	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 earnest	cc
21	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 said	nsubj
22	longing	long	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 earnest	acl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 words	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 words	det
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 longing	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 gospel	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gospel	det
28	gospel	gospel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 words	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 earnest	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 earnest	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 express	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 any	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not any	can	I			tree rules
2	is a	infinitive		a idle spectator	of that beaming eyes; long property	tree rules
3	beam	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	express	present	a idle spectator			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	long	gerund			for the words of the gospel	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for word=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	such deep earnest			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	word			the gospel		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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