Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 7

The cold wind whistled, and therefore the little girl nestled closer to the mother, who, looking up at my decreasing disc, thought of the bitter want at home, and spoke of the heavy taxes they had not been able to raise.

Who acts: cold wind, little girl, mother, bitter, mothers · What happens: whistle, nestle, look up, decrease, think, want · To what, where: home, heavy taxes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold wind, little girl, mother, bitter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whistled	nsubj
4	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nestled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nestled	cc
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 nestled	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nestled	nsubj
11	nestled	nestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whistled	conj
12	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 nestled	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nestled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 looking	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
19	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 mother	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 looking	compound:prt
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 disc	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 disc	nmod:poss
23	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 disc	amod
24	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
26	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nestled	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 want	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bitter	det
29	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	ccomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 want	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spoke	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spoke	cc
35	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whistled	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 taxes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 taxes	det
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 taxes	amod
39	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spoke	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 able	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 able	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 able	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 able	cop
44	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 taxes	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 raise	mark
46	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the cold wind				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nestle	past	the little girl			to the mother; close, therefore property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look up	gerund	the mother			at my decreasing disc	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at disc=Theme
4	decrease	gerund					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	think speech: other	participle	the little girl not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	want	present	the bitter		home		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	speak speech: other	past				of the heavy taxes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not is	past · perfect	mothers = mother	the heavy taxes not said here		able property	tree rules
9	raise	to-infinitive	mothers = mother not said here				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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