Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 31

Gerda called still louder, and an old woman then came out of the cottage, leaning upon a crooked stick.

Who acts: Gerda, old woman · What happens: call, come out, lean · To what, where: cottage, crooked stick · 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, old woman), 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
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 cottage	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cottage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cottage	det
15	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leaning	punct
17	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 stick	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stick	det
20	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stick	amod
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaning	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Gerda			still	loud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come out	past	a old woman	the cottage		then		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cottage=Result
3	lean	gerund	a old woman not said here		a crooked stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stick=Location

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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