Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 104

He could not utter a word; he could only seize her hand and hold it fast in his own, but he felt too happy and glad to open his lips.

Who acts: Ib · What happens: not utter, seize, hold, feel, open · To what, where: word, hand, own, lips

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib), 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	4 utter	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 utter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 utter	advmod
4	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 utter	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seize	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seize	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seize	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 seize	advmod
11	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 utter	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seize	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hold	cc
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seize	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hold	obj
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 hold	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 own	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hold	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 utter	conj
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 happy	advmod
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glad	cc
28	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 happy	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 open	mark
30	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 glad	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lips	nmod:poss
32	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 open	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 utter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not utter speech: other	could	Ib	a word			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	seize	could	Ib	carriage's hand			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	hold	infinitive	Ib not said here	word	Ib's own	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in own=Location
4	feel	past	Ib			happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	open	to-infinitive	Ib not said here	Ib's lips			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme

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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