Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 85

"Another mother!" cried the poor woman, setting the flowers free from her hands.

Who acts: mother · What happens: cry, set · To what, where: poor woman, flowers

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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 setting	punct
11	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 setting	obj
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 setting	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hands	case
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	14 free	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	another mother	the poor woman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
2	set	gerund	another mother not said here	the flowers				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient flower=Result

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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