Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 20

The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same as when, a child, she sat on the schoolroom form listening with thoughtful eyes to the words of the Christian teacher.

Who acts: expression, Sarah · What happens: grow up, be, sit, form, listen, word · To what, where: schoolroom, Christian teacher

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 (expression, Sarah), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 expression	det
2	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 same	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 face	det
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expression	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 maiden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 maiden	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 face	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 same	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 same	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 when	mark
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 same	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 child	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 same	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 same	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 schoolroom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 schoolroom	det
26	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 form	obl
27	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	ccomp
28	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sat	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 eyes	amod
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 listening	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 words	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 words	det
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 listening	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 teacher	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 teacher	det
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 teacher	amod
38	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 words	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the expression in the face of the grown maiden			still	a child obl; same property	tree rules
3	sit	past	Sarah					tree rules
4	form	present	Sarah not said here		the schoolroom			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on schoolroom=Location
5	listen	gerund	Sarah not said here				with thoughtful eyes; to the words of the Christian teacher	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
6	word			the Christian teacher				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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