Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 108
She immediately loosened little Gerda's clothes, pulled off her thick gloves and boots; for otherwise the heat would have been too great--and after laying a piece of ice on the Reindeer's head, read what was written on the fish-skin.
Who acts: woman, clothes, heat · What happens: loosen, pull off, be, lay, read, write · To what, where: clothes, thick gloves, piece, head, fish skin
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 (woman, clothes, heat), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loosened | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 loosened | advmod |
| 3 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Gerda | amod |
| 5 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Gerda | case |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 loosened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 clothes | acl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 gloves | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gloves | amod |
| 13 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pulled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boots | cc |
| 15 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gloves | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 great | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 great | case |
| 18 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 25 great | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heat | det |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 great | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 great | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 great | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 great | cop |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 great | advmod |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loosened | conj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 read | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 read | cc |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 laying | mark |
| 29 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 read | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 piece | det |
| 31 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laying | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ice | case |
| 33 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 piece | nmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Reindeer | det |
| 36 | Reindeer | Reindeer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Reindeer | case |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laying | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laying | punct |
| 40 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loosened | advcl |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 written | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 written | aux:pass |
| 43 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 read | ccomp |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 skin | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 skin | det |
| 46 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 skin | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 fish | punct |
| 48 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 written | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | woman | little Gerda's clothes | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 2 | pull off | participle | little Gerda's clothes not said here | woman's thick gloves and boots | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | the heat | great, otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay | gerund | a piece of ice | the Reindeer's head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on head=Destination | ||||
| 5 | read | infinitive | woman not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | write | past · passive | the fish skin | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on skin=Destination |
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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