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Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 18

And, as it seemed to her, the blue waves nodded in a strange manner; then she took off her red shoes, the most precious things she possessed, and threw them both into the river.

Who acts: it, Gerda · What happens: seem, nod, take off, possess, throw · To what, where: Gerda, blue waves, red shoes, precious things, 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 (it, 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

ccpunctmarknsubjcaseoblpunctdetamodparataxisaclcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscompound:prtnmod:possamodobjpunctdetadvmodamodconjnsubjacl:relclpunctccconjobjadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootAndCCONJ,PUNCTasSCONJitPRONseemedVERBtoADPherPRON,PUNCTtheDETblueADJwavesNOUNnoddedVERBinADPaDETstrangeADJmannerNOUN;PUNCTthenADVshePRONtookVERBoffADPherPRONredADJshoesNOUN,PUNCTtheDETmostADVpreciousADJthingsNOUNshePRONpossessedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthrewVERBthemPRONbothADVintoADPtheDETriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 seemedcc
2,,PUNCT_5 seemedpunct
3asasSCONJ_5 seemedmark
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 seemednsubj
5seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoADP_7 hercase
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 seemedobl
8,,PUNCT_11 wavespunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 wavesdet
10blueblueADJDegree=Pos11 wavesamod
11waveswaveNOUNNumber=Plur5 seemedparataxis
12noddednodVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 wavesacl
13ininADP_16 mannercase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 mannerdet
15strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos16 manneramod
16mannermannerNOUNNumber=Sing12 noddedobl
17;;PUNCT_20 tookpunct
18thenthenADVPronType=Dem20 tookadvmod
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 tooknsubj
20tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 seemedparataxis
21offoffADP_20 tookcompound:prt
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 shoesnmod:poss
23redredADJDegree=Pos24 shoesamod
24shoesshoeNOUNNumber=Plur20 tookobj
25,,PUNCT_29 thingspunct
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 thingsdet
27mostmostADVDegree=Sup28 preciousadvmod
28preciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos29 thingsamod
29thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur24 shoesconj
30sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 possessednsubj
31possessedpossessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 thingsacl:relcl
32,,PUNCT_34 threwpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 threwcc
34threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 tookconj
35themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs34 threwobj
36bothbothADV_34 threwadvmod
37intointoADP_39 rivercase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 riverdet
39riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing34 threwobl
40..PUNCT_5 seemedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seempastitGerdavn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2nodparticiplethe blue waves not said herein a strange mannervn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in manner=Theme
3take offpastGerdaGerda's red shoes and the precious thingsthenvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
4possesspastGerdathe precious things not said herevn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
5throwpastGerda not said hereshoes = shoeinto the river result; both propertyvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result

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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