Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 75

Then Death breathed upon her hands, and she felt his breath colder than the icy wind, and her hands sank down powerless.

Who acts: Death, hands · What happens: breathe, feel, sink down · To what, where: breath, powerless

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, hands), 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 breathed	advmod
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 breathed	nsubj
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breath	nmod:poss
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
13	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 felt	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wind	det
16	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wind	amod
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 colder	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sank	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sank	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sank	nsubj
22	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	advcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sank	compound:prt
24	powerless	powerless	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sank	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	Death		then	upon Death's hands	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	Death	flower's breath		cold property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	sink down	past	Death's hands	powerless			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent powerless=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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