Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 6

The old man sat and rocked the cradle; and the mother seated herself on a chair near him, and looked at her sick child who still breathed heavily, and took hold of its little hand.

Who acts: old man, mother, sick child · What happens: sit, rock, seat, look, breathe, take · To what, where: cradle, mother, chair, hold, little hand

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 (old man, mother, sick child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rocked	cc
6	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cradle	det
8	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rocked	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seated	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	nsubj
13	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 seated	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 chair	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chair	det
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	obl
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seated	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 child	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 child	nmod:poss
25	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 child	amod
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 breathed	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 breathed	advmod
29	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 child	acl:relcl
30	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	29 breathed	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 took	cc
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
34	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 hand	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hand	nmod:poss
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hand	amod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hold	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the old man					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rock	past	the old man not said here	the cradle				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cradle=Theme
3	seat	past	the mother	mother	a chair		near man	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
4	look	past	the old man not said here				at mother's sick child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme
5	breathe	past	mother's sick child			still	heavily property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	the old man not said here	hold of child's little hand				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
7	hold			child's little hand				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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