Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 41

On the table stood the most exquisite cherries, and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she had permission to do so.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: stand, eat, choose, have, do · To what, where: exquisite cherries, table, many, permission

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	On	on	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cherries	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 exquisite	advmod
7	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cherries	amod
8	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
11	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ate	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 chose	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chose	nsubj
17	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 many	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 had	case
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ate	conj
22	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 permission	acl
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 do	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past		the exquisite cherries	the table	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cherry=Theme on table=Destination
2	eat	past	Gerda	many		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
3	choose	past	Gerda			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Gerda	permission		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	permission not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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