Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 82
And they went into the garden in the large avenue, where one leaf was falling after the other; and when the lights in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.
Who acts: stairs, one leaf, lights, Raven, back door · What happens: go, fall, have, disappear, lead, stand · To what, where: garden, little Gerda, back door, half
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 (stairs, one leaf, lights, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 avenue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 avenue | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 avenue | amod |
| 10 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 falling | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 falling | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leaf | nummod |
| 14 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falling | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 falling | aux |
| 16 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 avenue | acl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 falling | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 disappeared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 disappeared | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 had | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lights | det |
| 24 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 had | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lights | nmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 disappeared | advcl |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 disappeared | advmod |
| 30 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 31 disappeared | advmod |
| 31 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 led | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Raven | det |
| 34 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 led | nsubj |
| 35 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 disappeared | conj |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Gerda | amod |
| 37 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 led | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 door | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 door | det |
| 40 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 door | compound |
| 41 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 led | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 stood | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 stood | nsubj |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 door | acl:relcl |
| 45 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 44 stood | obj |
| 46 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 half | amod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | stairs = stair | the garden | in the large avenue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | one leaf | after the other | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the lights in the palace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | disappear | past | all, gradually property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead | past | the Raven | little Gerda | the back door | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 6 | stand | past | the back door | half | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |
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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