Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 152

He nodded, and pointed to Anne Lisbeth, crying out, "Hold fast! hold fast! and then you may ride again in a nobleman's carriage, and forget your child."

Who acts: legend, you · What happens: nod, point, cry out, hold, ride, forget · To what, where: carriage, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pointed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pointed	cc
5	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nodded	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Anne	case
7	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pointed	obl:agent
8	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Anne	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 nodded	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 crying	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Hold	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hold	punct
14	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	parataxis
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 Hold	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 hold	punct
17	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Hold	parataxis
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 hold	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 hold	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ride	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 ride	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ride	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ride	aux
24	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hold	conj
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 ride	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 carriage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 nobleman	det
28	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carriage	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 nobleman	case
30	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forget	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 forget	cc
33	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Hold	conj
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 child	nmod:poss
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forget	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	legend					tree rules
2	point	participle	legend not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry out speech: express	gerund	legend not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold in a quote	infinitive					fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold in a quote	present					fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ride in a quote	may	you		a nobleman's carriage	then; again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	forget in a quote	infinitive		your 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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