Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 64

And Death stretched out his long hand towards the fine little flower, but she held her hands fast around his, so tight, and yet afraid that she should touch one of the leaves.

Who acts: Death, mother · What happens: stretch out, hold, touch · To what, where: long hand, one

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stretched	cc
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obj
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 flower	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flower	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flower	amod
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 held	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 held	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 held	nsubj
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fast	nsubj
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 held	advmod
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 his	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fast	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tight	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 tight	advmod
24	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 his	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 afraid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 afraid	cc
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 afraid	advmod
28	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tight	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 touch	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 touch	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 touch	aux
32	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 afraid	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 touch	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 leaves	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 leaves	det
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Death	Death's long hand	towards the fine little flower	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards flower=Recipient
2	hold	past	mother		fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	touch	should	mother	one of the leaves		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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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