Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 30
She came close to them, for the stream drifted the boat quite near the land.
Who acts: Gerda, stream · What happens: come, drift · To what, where: soldiers, boat, land
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, stream), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drifted | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 drifted | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | nsubj |
| 10 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | obj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 drifted | advmod |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Gerda | soldiers = soldier | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | drift | past | the stream | the boat | the land | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boat=Theme near land=Trajectory |
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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