Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 126

He sat beside Gerda, for he could not bear riding backwards; the other Raven stood in the doorway, and flapped her wings; she could not accompany Gerda, because she suffered from headache since she had had a fixed appointment and ate so much.

Who acts: Raven, other Raven, Gerda · What happens: sit, not bear, ride, stand, flap, not accompany · To what, where: Gerda, doorway, wings, headache, fixed appointment

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 (Raven, other Raven, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 Gerda	case
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 bear	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bear	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bear	advmod
10	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
11	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bear	xcomp
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	11 riding	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Raven	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Raven	amod
16	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 doorway	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 doorway	det
20	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flapped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flapped	cc
23	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wings	nmod:poss
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flapped	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 accompany	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 accompany	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 accompany	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 accompany	advmod
30	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
31	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 accompany	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 suffered	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 suffered	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 suffered	nsubj
35	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 headache	case
37	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 suffered	obl
38	since	since	SCONJ	_	41 had	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 had	aux
41	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 suffered	ccomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 appointment	det
43	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 appointment	amod
44	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ate	cc
46	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 had	conj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADV	_	46 ate	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Raven		Gerda		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside gerda=Location
2	not bear	could	Raven				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	ride	gerund	Raven not said here			backwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	the other Raven		the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
5	flap	past	the other Raven not said here	Gerda's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
6	not accompany	could	Gerda	Gerda			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
7	suffer	past	Gerda		headache		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	have	past · perfect	Gerda	a fixed appointment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Patient
9	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
10	eat	past	Gerda not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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