Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 28

Presently she sailed by a large cherry-orchard, where was a little cottage with curious red and blue windows; it was thatched, and before it two wooden soldiers stood sentry, and presented arms when anyone went past.

Who acts: Gerda, two wooden soldiers, anyone · What happens: sail, be, thatch, stand, present, go past · To what, where: little cottage, cottage, sentry, arms

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, two wooden soldiers, anyone), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 orchard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 orchard	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 orchard	amod
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 orchard	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cherry	punct
9	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cottage	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 cottage	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cottage	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cottage	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cottage	amod
15	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 orchard	appos
16	with	with	ADP	_	21 windows	case
17	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 windows	amod
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 windows	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blue	cc
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 red	conj
21	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cottage	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thatched	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thatched	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thatched	aux:pass
25	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sailed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
28	before	before	ADP	_	32 soldiers	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 soldiers	nsubj
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 soldiers	nummod
31	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 soldiers	amod
32	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
34	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 presented	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 presented	cc
37	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
38	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 presented	obj
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 went	advmod
40	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 presented	advcl
42	past	past	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Gerda		by a large cherry orchard; presently property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		a little cottage	with curious red windows	tree rules
3	thatch	past · passive		cottage		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	stand	past	two wooden soldiers	sentry		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentry=Stimulus
5	present	past	Gerda not said here	arms		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
6	go past	past	anyone		past property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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