Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 24

The boat drifted with the stream, little Gerda sat quite still without shoes, for they were swimming behind the boat, but she could not reach them, because the boat went much faster than they did.

Who acts: boat, shoes, Gerda · What happens: drift, sit, swim, not reach, go, do · To what, where: boat, shoes

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 (boat, shoes, 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 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
3	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boat	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drifted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Gerda	punct
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Gerda	amod
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stream	appos
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 still	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 shoes	case
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swimming	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 swimming	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swimming	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 swimming	aux
19	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 boat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boat	det
22	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swimming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reach	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 reach	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reach	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 reach	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 reach	advmod
28	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reach	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 went	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boat	det
33	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reach	conj
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 faster	advmod
36	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 went	advmod
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 did	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 faster	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	participle		the boat not said here			with the stream	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the boat			still	without shoes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swim	past · progressive	shoes = shoe		the boat			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind boat=Trajectory
4	not reach	could	Gerda	shoes = shoe				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	go	past	the boat				fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past	shoes = shoe					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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