Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 133
She remarked she was without them from the cutting frost; but the Reindeer dared not stand still; on he ran till he came to the great bush with the red berries, and there he set Gerda down, kissed her mouth, while large bright tears flowed from the animal's eyes, and then back he went as fast as possible.
Who acts: Gerda, Reindeer, large bright tears · What happens: remark, be, stand, run, come, set down · To what, where: cutting frost, great bush, Gerda, mouth, large bright tears, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Reindeer, large bright tears), 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 | 2 remarked | nsubj |
| 2 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 them | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 them | cop |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remarked | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 frost | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frost | det |
| 9 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frost | compound |
| 10 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remarked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 stand | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 stand | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Reindeer | det |
| 14 | Reindeer | Reindeer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stand | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dared | advmod |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remarked | parataxis |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stand | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 ran | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stand | conj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ran | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bush | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bush | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bush | amod |
| 29 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 berries | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 berries | det |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 berries | amod |
| 33 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bush | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 set | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 set | cc |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 set | expl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 set | nsubj |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remarked | conj |
| 39 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obj |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 set | compound:prt |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 kissed | punct |
| 42 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remarked | parataxis |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kissed | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 went | punct |
| 46 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 61 went | mark |
| 47 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 tears | amod |
| 48 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 tears | amod |
| 49 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 went | nsubj |
| 50 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 tears | acl |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 55 eyes | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 animal | det |
| 53 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 54 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 53 animal | case |
| 55 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 flowed | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 went | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 went | cc |
| 58 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 59 back | advmod |
| 59 | back | back | ADV | _ | 61 went | advmod |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 went | nsubj |
| 61 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 kissed | conj |
| 62 | as | as | ADV | _ | 63 fast | advmod |
| 63 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 61 went | advmod |
| 64 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 65 possible | mark |
| 65 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 fast | advcl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | past | Gerda | the cutting frost | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Gerda | without gloves = glove | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Reindeer | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past | reindeer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | reindeer | the great bush with the red berries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | set down | past | reindeer | Gerda | there | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gerda=Result | |||
| 7 | kiss | past | Gerda's mouth | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Co-Agent | |||||
| 8 | flow | participle | large bright tears not said here | the animal's eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | go | past | large bright tears | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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