Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 29

Gerda called to them, for she thought they were alive; but they, of course, did not answer.

Who acts: Gerda, soldiers · What happens: call, think, be, not answer · To what, where: Gerda, soldiers · Speech: someone speaks here

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, soldiers), 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj:pass
2	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 thought	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	advcl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alive	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alive	cop
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 they	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 they	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answer	punct
16	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	21 answer	advmod
17	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 of	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answer	punct
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 answer	advmod
21	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		Gerda	soldiers = soldier	soldiers = soldier obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient
2	think speech: other	past	Gerda				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	soldiers = soldier			alive property	tree rules
4	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support					vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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