Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 183
Mother Soren did not let that disturb her; she threw her cloak around her, and drew her hood over her head.
Who acts: Mother, that · What happens: not let, disturb, throw, draw · To what, where: that, mother, cloak, hood, head
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 (Mother, 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 2 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mother | appos |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disturb | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | nsubj |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obj |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 threw | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | past · do-support | Mother | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disturb | infinitive | that not said here | mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | mother | mother's cloak | around vitriol | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme around she=Destination | |||
| 4 | draw | past | mother not said here | vitriol's hood | vitriol's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme |
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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