Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 90
A single lamp was burning there; and on the floor stood the tame Raven, turning her head on every side and looking at Gerda, who bowed as her grandmother had taught her to do.
Who acts: single lamp, Gerda, grandmother · What happens: burn, stand, turn, look, bow, teach · To what, where: tame Raven, floor, head, side, grandmother, lamp
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 (single lamp, Gerda, grandmother), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lamp | amod |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burning | aux |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 burning | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 floor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burning | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Raven | det |
| 14 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Raven | amod |
| 15 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looking | cc |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 turning | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Gerda | case |
| 26 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 looking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bowed | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 bowed | nsubj |
| 29 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Gerda | acl:relcl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 taught | mark |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 taught | aux |
| 34 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bowed | ccomp |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 taught | iobj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 taught | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · progressive | a single lamp | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a single lamp not said here | the tame Raven | the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent raven=Theme on floor=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | lamp's head | every side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | at Gerda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gerda=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bow | past | Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | lamp's grandmother | lamp | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | lamp's grandmother not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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