Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 74

“Another mother!” said the poor woman, and directly let go her hold of both the flowers.

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, let, go, hold · To what, where: hold, 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), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hold	nmod:poss
16	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
18	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc:preconj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hold	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	another mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive			directly property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive		mother's hold of the flowers		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme
4	hold		mother	the flowers		nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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