Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 39
She then took Gerda by the hand, led her into the little cottage, and locked the door.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: take, lead, lock · To what, where: Gerda, little cottage, door
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cottage | amod |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 locked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 locked | cc |
| 17 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 locked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gerda | Gerda | then | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gerda=Destination | ||
| 2 | lead | past | Gerda not said here | Gerda | the little cottage | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into cottage=Destination | |||
| 3 | lock | past | Gerda not said here | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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