Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 39
And Gerda related all, from the very beginning: the Wood-pigeons cooed above in their cage, and the others slept.
Who acts: Gerda, others · What happens: relate, coo, sleep · To what, where: all, beginning, Wood pigeons, cage
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, others), 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 | _ | 3 related | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 related | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beginning | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 beginning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beginning | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 beginning | advmod |
| 9 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 pigeons | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pigeons | det |
| 12 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pigeons | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wood | punct |
| 14 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beginning | nmod |
| 15 | cooed | coo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pigeons | acl |
| 16 | above | above | ADV | _ | 15 cooed | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cage | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cooed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slept | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 slept | nsubj |
| 24 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | Gerda | all | from the beginning the Wood pigeons | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||
| 2 | coo | participle | the Wood pigeons not said here | pigeons's cage | above property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | the others | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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