Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 128

“My poor old grandmother!” sighed Gerda.

Who acts: poor old grandmother · What happens: sigh · To what, where: Gerda

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old grandmother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 sighed	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sighed	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 grandmother	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 grandmother	punct
8	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sighed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	My poor old grandmother	Gerda					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Topic

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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