Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 81

Here everything was bright, and the boy knelt down by the first tomb on his right, the grave of Michael Angelo, and sobbed as if his heart would break.

Who acts: everything, boy, heart · What happens: be, kneel down, sob, break · To what, where: right grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, boy, heart), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bright	advmod
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 bright	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	cop
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knelt	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knelt	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knelt	nsubj
9	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bright	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 knelt	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 tomb	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tomb	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 tomb	amod
14	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knelt	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	20 grave	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 grave	nmod:poss
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grave	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grave	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grave	det
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knelt	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Michael	case
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 grave	nmod
23	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Michael	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sobbed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sobbed	cc
26	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 knelt	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 break	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 break	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heart	nmod:poss
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 break	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 break	aux
32	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sobbed	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything	here	bright property	tree rules
2	kneel down	past	the boy	boy's right grave of Michael	by the first tomb	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location
3	sob	participle	the boy not said here			tree rules
4	break a condition, not said to happen	would	boy's heart			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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