Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 56

"'Yes, to-day is your golden wedding-day,' said the little elder-tree mother, stretching her head down between the two old people, who thought that she was their neighbour who was nodding to them; they looked at each other and clasped hands.

Who acts: two old people, mother, neighbour, people · What happens: be, say, stretch down, think, nod, look · To what, where: golden wedding day, little tree mother, head, neighbour, people, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two old people, mother, neighbour, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 day	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Yes	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 to	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 day	cop
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 day	nmod:poss
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wedding	punct
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mother	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
19	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 elder	punct
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	compound
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stretching	punct
24	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretching	obj
27	down	down	ADV	_	24 stretching	advmod
28	between	between	ADP	_	32 people	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 people	nummod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stretching	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 people	acl:relcl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 neighbour	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 neighbour	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 neighbour	cop
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neighbour	nmod:poss
40	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thought	ccomp
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 nodding	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 nodding	aux
43	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 neighbour	acl:relcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 nodding	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 looked	punct
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 looked	nsubj
48	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 each	case
50	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	48 looked	obl
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 each	fixed
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 clasped	cc
53	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 looked	conj
54	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 clasped	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		your golden wedding day		day		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the little tree mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	stretch down in a quote	gerund		mother's head			between the two old people; down property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	the two old people					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	mother	people's neighbour				tree rules
6	nod in a quote	past · progressive	people's neighbour		people			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
7	look in a quote	past	people				at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
8	clasp in a quote	past	people not said here	hands				vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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