Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 27
She rose, and looked for many hours at the beautiful green banks.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: rise, look
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hours | amod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 banks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 banks | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 banks | amod |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 banks | amod |
| 13 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Gerda | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Gerda not said here | hour | at the beautiful green banks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bank=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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