Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 132

They held each other by the hand, as the old grand-father and grand-mother yonder in the New Booths did, and they talked exactly like them of old times, and of the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.

Who acts: wife, New Booths · What happens: hold, do, talk, wed · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, New Booths), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 held	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	14 father	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grand	punct
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
19	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	24 did	advmod
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Booths	det
22	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Booths	amod
23	Booths	Booth	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 father	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 talked	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talked	nsubj
28	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	31 them	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talked	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 times	case
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 times	amod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 talked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 anniversary	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 anniversary	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 anniversary	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 anniversary	det
39	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 anniversary	amod
40	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 wedding	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wedding	nmod:poss
43	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 anniversary	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	wife	each		by the hand and the old grand father and grand mother; of the fiftieth anniversary of wife's wedding	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location
2	do	past	the New Booths			yonder property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	past	wife		time	like Booths = booth	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wed		wife				nom wedding «event transitive»: 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: «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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