Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 88

She folded her hands, and hid her face in the cotton curtains of the bed, and wept. "

Who acts: mother · What happens: fold, hide, weep · To what, where: hands, face, cotton curtains

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. 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	2 folded	nsubj
2	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 folded	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hid	cc
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 folded	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 curtains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 curtains	det
12	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curtains	compound
13	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hid	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 bed	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curtains	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wept	cc
19	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 folded	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fold	past	mother	mother's hands		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	hide	past	mother not said here	mother's face	the cotton curtains of the bed	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in curtain=Location
3	weep	past	mother not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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