Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 118
She folded her little hands and thought, “How good men and animals are!” and she then fell asleep and slept soundly.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: fold, think, fall, sleep · To what, where: little hands
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 folded | nsubj |
| 2 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hands | amod |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 folded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 folded | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 animals | cc |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 men | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ! | cop |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 fell | advmod |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 folded | conj |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slept | cc |
| 24 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fell | conj |
| 25 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 24 slept | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | Gerda | Gerda's little hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Gerda not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Gerda | then | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | Gerda not said here | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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