Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 50
She nodded towards the window, and beckoned with her hand.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: nod, beckon
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beckoned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beckoned | cc |
| 8 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nodded | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beckoned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | grandmother | towards the window | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards window=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | beckon | participle | grandmother not said here | with grandmother's hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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