Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 34
The poor animal kicked; the girl laughed, and pulled Gerda into bed with her.
Who acts: girl · What happens: kick, laugh, pull · To what, where: poor animal, Gerda, bed
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kicked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kicked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pulled | cc |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laughed | conj |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pulled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | participle · passive | the poor animal | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the girl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull | past | the girl not said here | Gerda | bed | with girl | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent gerda=Result |
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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