Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 32
“Where shall I find Death, who took away my little child?” said she.
Who acts: mother, Death · What happens: find, take away, say · To what, where: little child · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | ccomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 child | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | shall | mother | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take away in a quote | past | Death | my little child | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | 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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