Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 13
She and Gerda got in; and then away they drove over the stumps of felled trees, deeper and deeper into the woods.
Who acts: child, eyebrows · What happens: get in, drive, fell · To what, where: stumps
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 (child, eyebrows), 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 | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Gerda | cc |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 stumps | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stumps | det |
| 14 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drove | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stumps | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deeper | punct |
| 19 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 trees | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 deeper | cc |
| 21 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 deeper | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 woods | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woods | det |
| 24 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drove | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | drive | past | eyebrows = eyebrow | the stumps of felled trees | into the woods; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over stump=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fell | participle | tree rules |
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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