Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 74

And Death stretched out his hand towards the delicate little flower; but she held her hands tightly round it, and held it fast at same time, with the most anxious care, lest she should touch one of the leaves.

Who acts: Death · What happens: stretch out, hold, touch · To what, where: hand, hands, one

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), 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 stretched	cc
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flower	det
9	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flower	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flower	amod
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obj
18	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	20 it	advmod
19	round	round	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	obj
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 held	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 care	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 care	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 care	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 anxious	advmod
33	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 care	amod
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 touch	punct
36	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	39 touch	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 touch	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 touch	aux
39	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 held	parataxis
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 touch	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 leaves	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 leaves	det
43	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 one	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Death	flower's hand		towards the delicate little flower	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards flower=Recipient
2	hold	past	Death	Death's hands		round hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	hold	past	Death not said here	hand	time	with the anxious care; fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	touch	should	Death	one of the leaves			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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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