Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 179

"You can read that from my hands," she replied, and held out her hands, that were small indeed, but hard and strong, with bitten nails. "

Who acts: You, Holberg, that · What happens: read, reply, hold out, be, bite · To what, where: that, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Holberg, that), 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	_	4 read	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 read	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 held	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 small	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 small	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 small	cop
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hands	amod
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	22 small	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hard	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hard	cc
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 read	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 strong	cc
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hard	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nails	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 nails	case
31	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 nails	amod
32	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	can	You	that	my hands	with bitten nails	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	Holberg				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold out	past	Holberg not said here	Holberg's hands			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	that			indeed, small property	tree rules
5	bite	participle					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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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