Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 70

“Give me back my child!” said the mother, and she wept and prayed.

Who acts: mother · What happens: give back, say, weep, pray · To what, where: 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), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	back	back	ADP	_	2 Give	compound:prt
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	iobj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wept	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wept	nsubj
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 prayed	cc
17	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wept	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	give back in a quote	infinitive		my child	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weep	past	mother		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pray	past	mother not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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