Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 102

When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dried haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them, put her on the Reindeer, bound her fast, and away sprang the animal.

Who acts: Gerda, Lapland woman · What happens: warm, eat, drink, write, dry, beg · To what, where: Gerda, few words, dried haberdine, care, woman, Reindeer

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, Lapland woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 warmed	advmod
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	aux
4	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 warmed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eaten	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eaten	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 warmed	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drunk	cc
11	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 eaten	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrote	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 woman	compound
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	nsubj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 words	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 words	amod
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrote	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 haberdine	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 haberdine	det
22	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 haberdine	amod
23	haberdine	haberdine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 words	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrote	conj
26	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 begged	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begged	xcomp
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 begged	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 Reindeer	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Reindeer	det
37	Reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fast	punct
39	bound	bound	SCONJ	_	41 fast	mark
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fast	nmod:poss
41	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 put	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sprang	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sprang	cc
44	away	away	ADV	_	45 sprang	advmod
45	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 fast	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 animal	det
47	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sprang	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	warm	past · perfect	Gerda	Gerda				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	eat	past · perfect						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	participle						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	write	past	the Lapland woman	a few words		a dried haberdine		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on haberdine=Destination
5	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	beg speech: request	past	the Lapland woman not said here		Gerda			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lapland woman not said here	care			of words = word	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location
8	put	past	the Lapland woman not said here	woman		the Reindeer		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on reindeer=Destination
9	spring	past	the Lapland woman not said here	the animal			away property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location animal=Theme

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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