Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 10
Gerda was obliged to rest herself again, when, exactly opposite to her, a large Raven came hopping over the white snow.
Who acts: large Raven · What happens: oblige, rest, come, hop · To what, where: Gerda, white snow
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large Raven), 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 | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rest | mark |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 rest | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 rest | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opposite | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 opposite | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opposite | punct |
| 11 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 12 opposite | advmod |
| 12 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obliged | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opposite | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Raven | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Raven | amod |
| 18 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opposite | conj |
| 20 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 snow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 snow | det |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 snow | amod |
| 24 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hopping | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Gerda | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | Gerda | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a large Raven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hop | gerund | a large Raven not said here | the white snow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=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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