Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 20

She gave herself up to her grief, and it tossed her to and fro, as the sea tosses a ship without compass or rudder.

Who acts: mother, grief, sea · What happens: give up, toss · To what, where: mother, ship

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, grief, sea), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gave	iobj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 grief	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grief	nmod:poss
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tossed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tossed	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tossed	nsubj
11	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tossed	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fro	case
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fro	cc
15	fro	fro	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 tossed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tosses	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 tosses	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tosses	nsubj
20	tosses	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tossed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ship	det
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tosses	obj
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 compass	case
24	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tosses	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 rudder	cc
26	rudder	rudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 compass	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give up	past	mother		mother	to mother's grief	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to grief=Recipient
2	toss	past	grief	mother			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to fro=Recipient
3	toss	present	the sea	a ship		without compass or rudder	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

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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