Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 50

Then the child pointed to the dark curtain. "

What happens: point · To what, where: child, dark curtain

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: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 child	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 child	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 curtain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 curtain	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 curtain	amod
8	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pointed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	participle		the child not said here	the dark curtain				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to curtain=Recipient

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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