Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 6

When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he glanced mournfully upon the willows where hung the silent harps.

Who acts: Children, friend · What happens: sit, weep, glance, hang · To what, where: silent harps

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, friend), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Children	det
3	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Children	nmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glanced	advcl
7	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 waters	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waters	det
10	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weeping	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Babylon	case
12	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 waters	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glanced	nsubj
15	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	15 glanced	advmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 willows	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 willows	det
19	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glanced	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 hung	advmod
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 willows	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 harps	det
23	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 harps	amod
24	harps	harp	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hung	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Children of Israel			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	gerund	the Children of Israel not said here		by the waters of Babylon	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	glance	past	friend		upon the willows; mournfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon willow=Theme
4	hang	past		the silent harps		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=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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