Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 23

And there were many songs, and yet even more tears; till at length Night said, "Go to the right, into the dark forest of fir-trees; for I saw Death take that road with your little child."

Who acts: many songs, length, Death · What happens: be, say, go, see, take · To what, where: dark forest, Death, road · 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 (many songs, length, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 songs	amod
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tears	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tears	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 tears	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 tears	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 tears	amod
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 songs	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
16	Night	Night	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 length	appos
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Go	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Go	punct
20	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 right	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 right	det
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 forest	punct
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forest	amod
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Go	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 trees	case
30	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trees	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 fir	punct
32	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 forest	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 saw	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
37	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 saw	obj
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 saw	xcomp
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 road	det
40	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 child	case
42	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 child	nmod:poss
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 child	amod
44	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	many songs and more tears		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	length				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive			the dark forest of fir trees	to the right	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to right=Initial_Location into forest=Destination
4	see in a quote	past	length	Death			tree rules
5	take in a quote	infinitive	Death not said here	that road		with your little child	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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