Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 21

She observed this, and hastened to get back; but before she could do so, the boat was more than a yard from the land, and was gliding quickly onward.

Who acts: motion, boat · What happens: observe, hasten, get back, do, be, glide · To what, where: this

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 (motion, boat), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 observed	nsubj
2	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 observed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hastened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hastened	cc
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 observed	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hastened	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 observed	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boat	det
19	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 more	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 more	cop
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 do	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 yard	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yard	det
24	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 more	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 land	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yard	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gliding	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gliding	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gliding	aux
31	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 observed	advcl
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 onward	advmod
33	onward	onward	ADV	_	31 gliding	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	observe	past	motion	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	hasten	participle	motion not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get back	to-infinitive	motion not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	could	motion			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the boat		than a yard from the land; more property	tree rules
6	glide	past · progressive	motion not said here		onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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