Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 92
And she bowed her head down in her lap, and Death took her child and went with it into the unknown land.
Who acts: mother, Death · What happens: bow down, take, go · To what, where: head, lap, child, unknown land
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bowed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lap | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lap | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 child | nmod:poss |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 22 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow down | past | mother | mother's head | mother's lap | down property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||
| 2 | take | past | Death | mother's child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Death not said here | the unknown land | with child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location |
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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