Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 82

"Give me back my child," said the mother, weeping and imploring; and she seized two beautiful flowers in her hands, and cried to Death, "I will tear up all your flowers, for I am in despair."

Who acts: mother · What happens: give back, say, weep, implore, seize, cry · To what, where: child, two beautiful flowers, hands, Death, flowers · 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 (mother), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	back	back	ADP	_	2 Give	compound:prt
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 child	nmod:poss
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weeping	punct
13	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 imploring	cc
15	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 weeping	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seized	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seized	nsubj
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 flowers	nummod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flowers	amod
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seized	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seized	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Death	case
30	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cried	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tear	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 tear	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tear	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tear	aux
35	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cried	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 tear	compound:prt
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 flowers	det:predet
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 flowers	nmod:poss
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tear	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 despair	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	45 despair	case
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 despair	nsubj
43	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 despair	cop
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 despair	case
45	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tear	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give back in a quote	infinitive			my child			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weep	gerund	the mother not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	implore	gerund	the mother not said here					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	seize	past	mother	two beautiful flowers		mother's hands		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	mother not said here		Death			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to death=Recipient
7	tear up in a quote	future	mother	your flowers				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location flower=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	mother				for despair	tree rules

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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