Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 24

“Hast thou not seen Death go past with my little child?” said the mother.

Who acts: thou, Death, mother · What happens: have, not see, go past, say · To what, where: Death · 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 (thou, Death, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
2	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 seen	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Hast	ccomp
6	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	xcomp
8	past	past	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 child	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present				tree rules
2	not see in a quote	participle	thou	Death		tree rules
3	go past in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here		with my little child; past property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with child=Beneficiary
4	say speech: ask	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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