Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 116
And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the shining green leaves.
Who acts: Gerda, Ranunculuses · What happens: go, look, shine · To what, where: Ranunculuses
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Ranunculuses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ranunculuses | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ranunculuses | det |
| 6 | Ranunculuses | ranunculus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ranunculuses | acl:relcl |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 leaves | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaves | amod |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gerda | the Ranunculuses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ranunculus=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Ranunculuses | from the shining green leaves; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from leaf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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