Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 35

And then the old woman went into the water, caught hold of the boat with her crooked stick, drew it to the bank, and lifted little Gerda out.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: go, catch, draw, lift out, hold · To what, where: water, stick, bank, little Gerda, boat

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hold	amod
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 stick	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stick	nmod:poss
18	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stick	amod
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boat	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drew	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 bank	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bank	det
25	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lifted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lifted	cc
28	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Gerda	amod
30	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lifted	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	28 lifted	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman		the water and caught hold of the boat with Woman's crooked stick	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
2	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past	the old woman not said here	stick	the bank		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bank=Destination
4	lift out	past	the old woman not said here	little Gerda			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
5	hold			the boat with Woman's crooked stick			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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