Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 110

They held each other by the hand exactly as the great-grandfather and the great-grandmother had done outside, and, like them, they talked about bygone days and of their golden wedding.

Who acts: wife · What happens: hold, do, talk, wed · To what, where: each, great grandfather

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 held	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	13 grandfather	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 grandfather	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grandfather	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grandfather	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grandmother	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grandmother	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grandmother	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 great	punct
18	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grandfather	conj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 held	advcl
21	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 done	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 talked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 talked	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 them	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 talked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 them	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 talked	nsubj
29	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 days	case
31	bygone	bygone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 days	amod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 talked	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wedding	cc
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 wedding	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wedding	nmod:poss
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wedding	amod
37	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 days	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	wife	each		by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location
2	do	past · perfect · passive		the great grandfather and the great grandmother		outside property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	talk	past	wife		day	like wife	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wed		wife				nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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