Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 97
Then the mother screamed aloud with terror, "Which of them belongs to my child?
Who acts: mother · What happens: scream, belong · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 belongs | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 belongs | punct |
| 10 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 belongs | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 belongs | obl |
| 13 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 child | nmod:poss |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belongs | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the mother | then | with terror; aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=Theme | |||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | the mother not said here | of fate; to my child | 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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