Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 28

Our old grandmother moans so for you, that her white hair is falling off from sorrow, as ours fell under the witch's scissors.

Who acts: old grandmother, white hair, ours · What happens: moan, fall off, fall · To what, where: sorrow, scissors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandmother, white hair, ours), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandmother	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	amod
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moans	nsubj
4	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 moans	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 moans	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 falling	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 falling	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falling	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 falling	aux
14	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 moans	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 falling	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 sorrow	case
17	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 fell	mark
20	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 falling	conj
22	under	under	ADP	_	26 scissors	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witch	det
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scissors	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 witch	case
26	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Our old grandmother		for you	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient
2	fall off	present · progressive	grandmother's white hair	sorrow		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	fall	past	ours	the witch's scissors		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under scissors=Location

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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