Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 36
And Gerda was so glad to be on dry land again; but she was rather afraid of the strange old woman.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: be · To what, where: dry 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), 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 | _ | 5 glad | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 land | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 land | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | amod |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | advcl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 land | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 afraid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gerda | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | dry land | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Gerda | of the strange old woman; afraid property | tree rules |
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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