Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 45
She therefore went out in the garden, stretched out her crooked stick towards the rose-bushes, which, beautifully as they were blowing, all sank into the earth and no one could tell where they had stood.
Who acts: Woman, rose bushes, one, bushes · What happens: go out, stretch out, be, sink, tell, stand · To what, where: garden, crooked stick, rose bushes, earth · 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 (Woman, rose bushes, one, bushes), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stretched | punct |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stretched | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stick | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stick | amod |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stretched | obl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bushes | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bushes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stretched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blowing | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 blowing | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blowing | punct |
| 22 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 26 blowing | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 blowing | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 blowing | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 blowing | cop |
| 26 | blowing | blowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sank | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 sank | advmod |
| 29 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 earth | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 earth | det |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sank | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tell | cc |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tell | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | aux |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sank | conj |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 stood | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stood | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stood | aux |
| 41 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 tell | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Woman | the garden | therefore property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | Woman not said here | Woman's crooked stick | the rose bushes | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards bush=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the rose bushes | beautifully, blowing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | could | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | stand | past · perfect | bushes = bush | vn assuming_position-50 «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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