Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 129

And now the Finland woman placed little Gerda on the Reindeer's back, and off he ran with all imaginable speed.

Who acts: Finland woman, reindeer · What happens: place, run · To what, where: little Gerda, back

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 (Finland woman, reindeer), 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	_	6 placed	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 placed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woman	compound
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Gerda	amod
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Reindeer	det
11	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 back	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Reindeer	case
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 ran	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 speed	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 speed	det
21	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 speed	amod
22	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	the Finland woman	little Gerda		the Reindeer's back	now		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme on back=Destination
2	run	past	reindeer					with all imaginable speed	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with speed=Material

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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