Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 134

There stood poor Gerda now, without shoes or gloves, in the very middle of dreadful icy Finland.

What happens: stand · To what, where: poor Gerda, middle

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Gerda	amod
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shoes	punct
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 shoes	case
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	parataxis
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 gloves	cc
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shoes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 middle	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 middle	advmod
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Finland	case
17	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Finland	amod
18	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Finland	amod
19	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		poor Gerda		the middle of dreadful icy Finland; there	now		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in middle=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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