--- title: We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became quieter and calmer, and on her countenance beamed happiness and peace. Who acts: We, GRANDMOTHER, breathing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/182/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/) / 182 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 182 We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became quieter and calmer, and on her countenance beamed happiness and peace. **Who acts:** We, GRANDMOTHER, breathing · **What happens:** hear, sleep, become, beam, breathe · **To what, where:** gentle breathing, happiness, countenance This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, GRANDMOTHER, breathing), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:46:182 # text = We could hear her gentle breathing as she slept; gradually it became quieter and calmer, and on her countenance beamed happiness and peace. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 gradually gradually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 22 beamed beam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | could | We | GRANDMOTHER's gentle breathing | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer breathing=Stimulus | | 2 | **sleep** | past | GRANDMOTHER | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | breathing | | | | | gradually, quiet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **beam** | past | breathing *not said here* | happiness and peace | | GRANDMOTHER's countenance | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | | GRANDMOTHER | | | | | | nom breathing «act intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/181/) - next →: [sentence 183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/183/) - ↑ back to [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/)