Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 70

And her mother took hold of her nose, and pinched it till it was red and blue; but this was all done out of pure love.

Who acts: mother, hold · What happens: take, pinch, be, do out, hold · To what, where: hold, this, pure love, nose

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, hold), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pinched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pinched	cc
11	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pinched	obj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 red	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 red	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 red	cop
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pinched	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 blue	cc
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 red	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 done	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 done	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux:pass
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 done	advmod
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 love	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 love	case
27	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 love	amod
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	maiden's mother	hold of maiden's nose			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	pinch	past	maiden's mother not said here	hold			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past	hold			red property	tree rules
4	be		hold not said here				tree rules
5	do out	past · passive		this	pure love	all property	tree rules
6	hold			maiden's nose			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: «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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