Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 55

“There it is!” cried she, and stretched her hands out over a little blue crocus, that hung quite sickly on one side.

Who acts: child, little blue crocus · What happens: be, cry, stretch out, hang · To what, where: mother, hands, little blue crocus, one side · 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 (child, little blue crocus), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stretched	obj
14	out	out	ADV	_	11 stretched	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	19 crocus	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crocus	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crocus	amod
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crocus	amod
19	crocus	crocus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hung	nsubj
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crocus	acl:relcl
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 sickly	advmod
24	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hung	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 side	nummod
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	child		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		mother			tree rules
3	stretch out	past		mother's hands	a little blue crocus	out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	hang	past	a little blue crocus		one side	sickly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location

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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