Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 22

Then the mother wrung her hands, sang and wept, and there were many songs, but yet many more tears; and then Night said, “Go to the right, into the dark pine forest; thither I saw Death take his way with thy little child!”

Who acts: mother, many songs, Night, Death · What happens: wring, sing, weep, be, say, go · To what, where: hands, dark pine forest, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, many songs, Night, Death), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wrung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrung	nsubj
4	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrung	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wept	cc
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sang	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 were	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 songs	amod
16	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tears	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tears	cc
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tears	amod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 tears	amod
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 songs	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 said	advmod
26	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Go	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Go	punct
30	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 right	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 right	det
33	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 forest	punct
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 forest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
37	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 forest	amod
38	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 forest	compound
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Go	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct
41	thither	thither	ADV	_	43 saw	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 saw	nsubj
43	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrung	parataxis
44	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 take	nsubj
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 saw	ccomp
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 way	nmod:poss
47	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 take	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	51 child	case
49	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 child	nmod:poss
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 child	amod
51	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 take	obl
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 take	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wring	past	the mother	mother's hands		then		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	the mother not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weep	past	the mother not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	many songs but many more tears		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: express	past	Night			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go in a quote	infinitive			the dark pine forest		to the right	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to right=Initial_Location into forest=Destination
7	see in a quote	past	Night				thither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	take in a quote	infinitive	Death	Death's way			with thy little child	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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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