Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 67
"That is it," she cried, stretching out her hand towards a little crocus-flower which hung down its sickly head.
Who acts: That, beating, little crocus flower · What happens: be, cry, stretch out, hang down · To what, where: beating, hand, sickly head · 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 (That, beating, little crocus flower), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretching | punct |
| 10 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretching | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretching | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 flower | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flower | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flower | amod |
| 17 | crocus | crocus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flower | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 crocus | punct |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretching | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hung | nsubj |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flower | acl:relcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 hung | compound:prt |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sickly | sickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | beating | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | beating | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | gerund | beating not said here | mother's hand | towards a little crocus flower | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards flower=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hang down | past | a little crocus flower | beating's sickly head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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