Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 50

Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun set behind the tall cherry-tree; she then had a pretty bed, with a red silken coverlet filled with blue violets.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: jump, play, set, have, fill · To what, where: sun, tall cherry tree, pretty bed, red silken coverlet

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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 played	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 played	cc
7	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 played	obl
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sun	acl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
15	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cherry	punct
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bed	det
23	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bed	amod
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 coverlet	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 coverlet	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 coverlet	det
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coverlet	amod
29	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coverlet	amod
30	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
31	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 coverlet	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 violets	case
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 violets	amod
34	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 filled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	Gerda				for joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past	Gerda not said here			till the sun		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	participle		the sun not said here	the tall cherry tree			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind tree=Destination
4	have	past	Gerda	a pretty bed		then	with a red silken coverlet	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
5	fill	participle		a red silken coverlet not said here			with blue violets	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with violet=Instrument

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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