Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 122

Shoes and a muff were given her; she was, too, dressed very nicely; and when she was about to set off, a new carriage stopped before the door.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: give, be, dress, set off, stop · To what, where: Shoes, new carriage

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	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 given	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 muff	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 muff	det
4	muff	muff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shoes	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dressed	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	14 dressed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dressed	punct
14	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 given	advcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 nicely	advmod
16	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	14 dressed	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 about	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 about	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 about	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 about	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 about	cop
22	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 given	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 set	mark
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 about	xcomp
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carriage	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 carriage	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 carriage	amod
29	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	parataxis
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 carriage	acl
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Shoes and a muff			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
2	be	past	Gerda				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dress	participle				nicely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Gerda			about property	tree rules
5	set off	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	participle		a new carriage not said here	before the door		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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