Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 82

She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity for some days, till one evening while watching her mistress she was suddenly taken very ill; her limbs tottered under her, and she sank fainting by the bedside of the sick woman.

Who acts: mother, limbs · What happens: struggle, watch, take, totter, sink, faint · To what, where: mistress, mother, truth

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 (mother, limbs), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struggled	nsubj
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 convictions	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 convictions	det
5	convictions	conviction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 struggled	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 truth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 convictions	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Christianity	case
10	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 truth	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 days	det
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 struggled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 evening	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 evening	nummod
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struggled	obl:unmarked
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 watching	mark
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 struggled	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mistress	nmod:poss
21	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watching	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taken	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux:pass
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 taken	advmod
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mistress	acl:relcl
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 ill	advmod
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 taken	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tottered	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 limbs	nmod:poss
30	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tottered	nsubj
31	tottered	totter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tottered	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sank	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sank	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sank	nsubj
37	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tottered	advcl
38	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 sank	xcomp
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 bedside	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bedside	det
41	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fainting	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 woman	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 woman	det
44	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 woman	amod
45	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bedside	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	mother		day; evening	against this convictions of the truth of Christianity	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	gerund	mother not said here	mother's mistress			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme
3	take	past · passive		mother		ill, suddenly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
4	totter	past	mother's limbs			under mother	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location
5	sink	past	mother				tree rules
6	faint	gerund	mother not said here			by the bedside of the sick woman	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	convict			the truth of Christianity			nom conviction «cognition 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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