Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 34

The old women who drank brandy would color it quite black before they drank it, to show how they mourned; and what more could they do?

Who acts: old women, women · What happens: drink, color, show, mourn, do · To what, where: brandy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old women, women), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 women	amod
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 color	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drank	nsubj
5	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 women	acl:relcl
6	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drank	obj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 color	aux
8	color	color	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 color	obj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 black	advmod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 color	xcomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 drank	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drank	nsubj
14	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 black	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drank	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 color	parataxis
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 mourned	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mourned	nsubj
21	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 show	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 what	amod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 color	conj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 color	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the old women	brandy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brandy=Patient
2	color	would	the old women	brandy	black property	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	drink	past	women = woman	brandy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	show	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mourn	past	women = woman			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	could	women = woman			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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