Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 52
The next morning she went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and thus passed away a day.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: go, play, pass away · To what, where: warm sunshine
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flowers | det |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sunshine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sunshine | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sunshine | amod |
| 14 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passed | cc |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gerda | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | the warm sunshine | with the flowers | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass away | participle | Gerda not said here | day | away, thus property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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