Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 46
The old woman feared that if Gerda should see the roses, she would then think of her own, would remember little Kay, and run away from her.
Who acts: old woman, Gerda, Woman · What happens: fear, see, think, remember, run away · To what, where: roses, little Kay
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, Gerda, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | nsubj |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feared | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roses | det |
| 11 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 think | advmod |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feared | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 think | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remember | punct |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 remember | aux |
| 22 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 think | conj |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kay | amod |
| 24 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 remember | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 run | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 run | cc |
| 27 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feared | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 run | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 run | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | the old woman | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | should | Gerda | the roses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | would | Woman | then | of Woman's own | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | remember | would | Woman not said here | little Kay | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kay=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run away | present | the old woman not said here | from Woman; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |
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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