Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 65

She remained there the whole day, sitting alone, like a frightened squirrel, in the silent solitude of the wood, where the rest and stillness is as the calm of death.

Who acts: animal, rest · What happens: remain, sit, be · To what, where: silent solitude

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, rest), 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 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 remained	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 remained	advcl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 squirrel	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 squirrel	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 squirrel	det
13	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 squirrel	amod
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 solitude	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 solitude	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 solitude	det
18	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 solitude	amod
19	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 solitude	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 calm	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 calm	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calm	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stillness	cc
28	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rest	conj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 calm	cop
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 calm	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 calm	det
32	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wood	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 death	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calm	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	animal	there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	gerund	animal not said here	the silent solitude of the wood and the calm		like a frightened squirrel; alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location
3	is	present	the rest and stillness			as the calm; of death	tree rules

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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