Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 124

An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.

Who acts: old grandmother, grand daughter · What happens: sit, servant, come · To what, where: air

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 (old grandmother, grand daughter), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grandmother	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	amod
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 daughter	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughter	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grand	punct
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 servant	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poor	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poor	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughter	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lovely	cc
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poor	conj
19	servant	servant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 servant	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 visit	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 visit	det
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 visit	amod
25	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	a old grandmother	the air		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
2	servant	present	grandmother's grand daughter			tree rules
3	come	infinitive	grandmother's grand daughter not said here		for a short visit	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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