Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 146

The gate was locked, but she shook the rusted bolt till it was loosened, and the gate opened; and little Gerda ran off barefooted into the wide world.

Who acts: Gerda, gate, little Gerda · What happens: lock, shake, rust, loosen, open, run off · To what, where: gate, rusted bolt, wide world

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, gate, little Gerda), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux:pass
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shook	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 shook	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	nsubj
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bolt	det
10	rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bolt	amod
11	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 loosened	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loosened	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 loosened	aux:pass
15	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shook	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opened	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shook	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ran	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Gerda	amod
24	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 ran	compound:prt
27	barefooted	barefoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 ran	xcomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
30	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 world	amod
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 barefooted	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the gate		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	shake	past	Gerda	the rusted bolt		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bolt=Patient
3	rust	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	loosen	past · passive		gate		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	open	past	the gate			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run off	past	little Gerda			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	barefoot	participle	little Gerda not said here		the wide world	tree rules

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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