Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 34

The dead woman nodded her head as if to say "Yes," and put her hand on her breast.

Who acts: dead woman · What happens: nod, say, put · To what, where: head, hand, breast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead woman), 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 woman	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nodded	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
12	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 breast	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 breast	nmod:poss
21	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	nod	past	the dead woman	wife's head		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the dead woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
3	put	infinitive	the dead woman not said here	wife's hand	wife's breast	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on breast=Destination

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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