Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 27

And she pressed the thorn-bush to her breast, so firmly, that it might be thoroughly warmed, and the thorns went right into her flesh, and her blood flowed in large drops, but the thornbush shot forth fresh green leaves, and there came flowers on it in the cold winter night, the heart of the afflicted mother was so warm; and the thorn-bush told her the way she should go.

Who acts: woman, thorns, blood, thornbush, heart, thorn bush · What happens: press, warm, go, flow, shoot, come · To what, where: thorn bush, breast, flesh, large drops, fresh green leaves, flowers · 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 (woman, thorns, blood, thornbush), 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	_	3 pressed	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bush	det
5	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bush	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 thorn	punct
7	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 breast	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 breast	nmod:poss
10	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bush	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 firmly	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 firmly	advmod
13	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	3 pressed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 warmed	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 warmed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 warmed	nsubj:pass
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 warmed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 warmed	aux:pass
19	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	20 warmed	advmod
20	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pressed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thorns	det
24	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
26	right	right	ADV	_	29 flesh	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 flesh	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 flesh	nmod:poss
29	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 flowed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 flowed	cc
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 blood	nmod:poss
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flowed	nsubj
34	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 drops	case
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 drops	amod
37	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 flowed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 shot	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 shot	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 thornbush	det
41	thornbush	thornbush	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shot	nsubj
42	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
43	forth	forth	ADV	_	42 shot	advmod
44	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 leaves	amod
45	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 leaves	amod
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 shot	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 came	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 came	cc
49	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 came	expl
50	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
51	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 came	obj
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 flowers	nmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	58 night	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 night	det
56	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 night	amod
57	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 night	compound
58	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 heart	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 heart	det
61	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 warm	nsubj
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 mother	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 mother	det
64	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 mother	amod
65	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 heart	nmod
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 warm	cop
67	so	so	ADV	_	68 warm	advmod
68	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 night	advcl
69	;	;	PUNCT	_	75 told	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 told	cc
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 bush	det
72	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 bush	compound
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 thorn	punct
74	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 told	nsubj
75	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
76	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 told	iobj
77	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 way	det
78	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 told	obj
79	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 go	nsubj
80	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	81 go	aux
81	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 way	acl:relcl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	woman	the thorn bush				to woman's breast; firmly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme
2	warm	might · passive		breast				thoroughly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	go	past	the thorns			woman's flesh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into flesh=Initial_Location
4	flow	past	woman's blood			large drops			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drop=Location
5	shoot	past	the thornbush	fresh green leaves				forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
6	come	past	woman not said here	flowers		thornbush; there	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
7	afflict	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	the heart of the afflicted mother					warm property	tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	past	the thorn bush	the way	flower				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic
10	go	should	woman	the way not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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