Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 65

Then Death blew on her hands, and she felt that it was colder than the cold wind, and her hands fell down powerless.

Who acts: Death, mother, hand, hands · What happens: blow, feel, be, fall down · To what, where: hands, powerless

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, hand, hands), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 blew	advmod
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 colder	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 colder	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 colder	cop
14	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 felt	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 wind	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colder	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
25	powerless	powerless	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Death		mother's hands	then		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	feel	past	mother					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	hand				than the cold wind; cold property	tree rules
4	fall down	past	mother's hands	powerless			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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