Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 33

Her eyes had a most piteous expression; she was without a voice, excepting a hollow, croaking sound, like the smothered sobs of a dreaming child.

Who acts: eyes, transformation, voice, dreaming child · What happens: have, be, except, croak, smother, dream · To what, where: piteous expression, hollow, sound

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, transformation, voice, dreaming child), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 expression	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 piteous	advmod
6	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 expression	amod
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 voice	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 voice	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 voice	cop
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 excepting	punct
15	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 voice	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hollow	det
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 excepting	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 croaking	punct
19	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 excepting	conj
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 croaking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sobs	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 sobs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sobs	det
24	smothered	smother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sobs	amod
25	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 croaking	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 child	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sobs	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	transformation's eyes	a piteous expression		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient
2	is	past	transformation		without a voice	tree rules
3	except	gerund	a voice not said here	a hollow		tree rules
4	croak	gerund	a voice not said here	sound	like the smothered sobs of a dreaming child	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
5	smother	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	dream	gerund				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	sob		a dreaming child			nom sob «state intransitive»: of=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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