Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 12

She would hold my head between her hands, and sing the songs she never sang at other times, for the Turks, our masters, would not allow it.

Who acts: mother · What happens: hold, sing, not sing, not allow · To what, where: head, hands, songs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sing	cc
11	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hold	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 songs	det
13	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sing	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sang	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 sang	advmod
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 songs	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 times	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sang	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Turks	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 Turks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Turks	det
23	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 songs	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 masters	punct
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 masters	nmod:poss
26	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Turks	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 allow	punct
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 allow	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 allow	advmod
30	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hold	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 allow	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would	mother	my head	mother's hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme between hand=Location
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	mother not said here	the songs			for the Turks and our masters	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent song=Theme for turk=Beneficiary
3	not sing speech: express	past	mother	the songs not said here		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	not allow	would	mother not said here	head				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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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