Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 12

She drove out with her mamma, and then she would always nod at the porter's George; yes, she used even to kiss her hand to him, till her mamma said she was too old to do that now.

Who acts: daughter, mamma · What happens: drive out, nod, use, kiss, say, be · To what, where: George, hand, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, mamma), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 drove	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 mamma	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mamma	nmod:poss
6	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nod	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nod	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 nod	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nod	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 nod	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 nod	advmod
13	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drove	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 George	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 porter	det
16	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 George	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 porter	case
18	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 nod	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
20	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	23 used	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 kiss	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 kiss	mark
26	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kiss	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kiss	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mamma	nmod:poss
34	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 used	conj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 old	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 old	cop
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 old	advmod
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 old	xcomp
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 do	obj
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 do	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive out	past	daughter					with daughter's mamma	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	nod	would	daughter			the porter's George	then	always property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	past	daughter						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kiss	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	daughter's hand	George				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	daughter's mamma						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	daughter					old property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	that			now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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