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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seemed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 seemed | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waves | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waves | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waves | amod |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | parataxis |
| 12 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 waves | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manner | amod |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nodded | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 took | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shoes | amod |
| 24 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 things | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 things | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 precious | advmod |
| 28 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shoes | conj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 possessed | nsubj |
| 31 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 things | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 threw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 threw | cc |
| 34 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 threw | obj |
| 36 | both | both | ADV | _ | 34 threw | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 river | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 river | det |
| 39 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 threw | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | Gerda | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | participle | the blue waves not said here | in a strange manner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in manner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | Gerda | Gerda's red shoes and the precious things | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | possess | past | Gerda | the precious things not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | Gerda not said here | shoes = shoe | into the river result; both property | vn 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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