Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 29

Then she pressed the bramble to her bosom quite close, so that it might be thawed, and the thorns pierced her flesh, and great drops of blood flowed; but the bramble shot forth fresh green leaves, and they became flowers on the cold winter's night, so warm is the heart of a sorrowing mother.

Who acts: Death, thorns, great drops, bramble, drops · What happens: press, thaw, pierce, flow, shoot, become · To what, where: bramble, flesh, fresh green leaves, flowers, warm heart

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 (Death, thorns, great drops, bramble), 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 pressed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bramble	det
5	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bosom	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bosom	nmod:poss
8	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obl
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 close	advmod
10	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pressed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thawed	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 thawed	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thawed	nsubj:pass
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thawed	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thawed	aux:pass
17	thawed	thaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pressed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pierced	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pierced	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thorns	det
21	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pierced	nsubj
22	pierced	pierce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 flesh	nmod:poss
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pierced	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flowed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flowed	cc
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 drops	amod
28	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flowed	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 blood	case
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drops	nmod
31	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pressed	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 shot	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 shot	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bramble	det
35	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shot	nsubj
36	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
37	forth	forth	ADV	_	36 shot	advmod
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 leaves	amod
39	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 leaves	amod
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shot	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 became	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 became	nsubj
44	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 became	xcomp
46	on	on	ADP	_	51 night	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 winter	det
48	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 winter	amod
49	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 night	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 winter	case
51	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 became	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 heart	punct
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 warm	advmod
54	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 heart	amod
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 heart	cop
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 heart	det
57	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 mother	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 mother	det
60	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 mother	amod
61	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 heart	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	Death	the bramble	then	to Death's bosom; close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bramble=Theme
2	thaw	might · passive		bramble			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	pierce	past	the thorns	Death's flesh			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
4	flow	participle	great drops of blood				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shoot	past	the bramble	fresh green leaves		forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
6	become	past	drops = drop	flowers	night		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	is a	present		the warm heart		of a sorrowing mother	tree rules
8	sorrow	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	bosom		Death				nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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