Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 40

The little robber maiden wound her arm round Gerda's neck, held the knife in the other hand, and snored so loud that everybody could hear her; but Gerda could not close her eyes, for she did not know whether she was to live or die.

Who acts: little robber, everybody, Gerda · What happens: hold, snore, hear, not close, not know, be · To what, where: knife, other hand, Gerda, 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 (little robber, everybody, Gerda), 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 robber	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robber	amod
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	nsubj
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 robber	amod
5	wound	wound	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maiden	obl
8	round	round	ADP	_	11 neck	case
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 neck	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Gerda	case
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arm	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 robber	punct
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hand	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 snored	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 snored	cc
22	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 held	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 loud	advmod
24	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snored	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hear	mark
26	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 hear	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 loud	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hear	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 close	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 close	cc
32	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 close	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 close	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 close	advmod
35	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 held	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 close	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 know	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 know	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 know	advmod
43	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 close	conj
44	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	48 live	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 live	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 live	cop
47	to	to	PART	_	48 live	mark
48	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 know	ccomp
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 die	cc
50	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 live	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the little robber	the knife	the other hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in hand=Location
2	snore	past	the little robber not said here			loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	could	everybody	Gerda			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	not close	could	Gerda	Gerda's eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	not know	past · do-support	Gerda				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	is	past	Gerda			live property	tree rules
7	die	infinitive	Gerda not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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