Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 24

Within the wood the mother came to cross roads, and she knew not which to take.

Who acts: mother · What happens: come, cross, not know, take · To what, where: roads · 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 (mother), 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 wood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cross	mark
8	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cross	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knew	advmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 take	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the mother		within the wood	tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	roads		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
3	not know	past	mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	take	to-infinitive				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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