Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 11
But the poor mother ran out of the house and cried aloud for her child.
Who acts: poor mother · What happens: run, cry · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mother | amod |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 child | nmod:poss |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the poor mother | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the poor mother not said here | for mother's child; aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for child=Recipient |
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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