Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 71

At once she seized hold of two beautiful flowers close by, with each hand, and cried out to Death, “I will tear all thy flowers off, for I am in despair.”

Who acts: mother, hold · What happens: seize, close, cry out, tear, be, hold · To what, where: Death, flowers, two beautiful flowers · 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, hold), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 seized	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 flowers	nummod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nmod
10	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	ccomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hand	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cried	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Death	case
21	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tear	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 tear	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tear	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tear	aux
26	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cried	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 flowers	det
28	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 flowers	nmod:poss
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tear	obj
30	off	off	ADV	_	26 tear	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 despair	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 despair	case
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 despair	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 despair	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 despair	case
36	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tear	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	mother				tree rules
2	close	present	hold of two beautiful flowers			by each hand	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cry out speech: express	past	mother not said here		Death		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to death=Recipient
4	tear in a quote	future	mother	thy flowers		off property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location flower=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	mother			for despair	tree rules
6	hold			two beautiful flowers			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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