Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 40

Her eyes brightened, she gazed earnestly at the sea and the sky, her hands were folded, and I think she prayed, 'Our Father.'

Who acts: eyes, last, I · What happens: brighten, gaze, fold, think, pray · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, last, I), 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 brightened	nsubj
3	brightened	brighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gazed	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gazed	nsubj
6	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brightened	conj
7	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	6 gazed	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gazed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sky	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 folded	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 folded	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 folded	aux:pass
18	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gazed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brightened	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 prayed	nsubj
24	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 think	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Father	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Father	punct
27	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Father	nmod:poss
28	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 prayed	vocative
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brightened	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 brightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brighten	participle	last's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	gaze	past	last		at the sea and the sky; earnestly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=Theme
3	fold	past · passive		last's hands		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	pray	past	last		Our Father vocative	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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