Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 72

“Touch them not!” said Death.

Who acts: Death · What happens: not touch, say · To what, where: parsley · 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 (Death), 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 Touch	punct
2	Touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Touch	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Touch	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch in a quote	infinitive		parsley					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Death						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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