Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 15

It was quite early; she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes, and went alone to the river.

Who acts: river, Gerda, old grandmother · What happens: be, kiss, put, go · To what, where: old grandmother, red shoes, river

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 (river, Gerda, old 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 early	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 early	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 kissed	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 kissed	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kissed	nsubj
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandmother	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandmother	amod
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kissed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandmother	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
17	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 asleep	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 shoes	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoes	nmod:poss
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shoes	amod
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kissed	conj
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	river				early property	tree rules
2	kiss	past	Gerda	Gerda's old grandmother				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Co-Agent
3	is	past	Gerda's old grandmother			still	asleep property	tree rules
4	put	participle	Gerda's old grandmother not said here		Gerda's red shoes			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
5	go	past	Gerda not said here		the river		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_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: «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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