Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 14

Out in the snow sat a woman in long black garments, and she said to the mother, "Death has been with you in your room.

Who acts: woman, Death · What happens: sit, say, be · To what, where: woman, snow, mother, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Death), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 garments	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garments	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garments	amod
11	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 you	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 you	punct
21	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 you	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 you	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 you	cop
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 said	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 room	nmod:poss
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a woman		the snow	in long black garments; out property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in snow=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	woman		the mother	your room		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present · perfect	Death				with the mother = mother	tree rules

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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