Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 41

The robbers sat round the fire, sang and drank; and the old female robber jumped about so, that it was quite dreadful for Gerda to see her.

Who acts: robbers, old female robber, fire · What happens: sit, sing, drink, jump about, be, see · To what, where: robber

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 (robbers, old female robber, fire), 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	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sang	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 jumped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 jumped	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 robber	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 robber	amod
15	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 robber	amod
16	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	nsubj
17	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 so	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	17 jumped	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dreadful	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dreadful	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dreadful	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dreadful	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 dreadful	advmod
25	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jumped	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 Gerda	case
27	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dreadful	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dreadful	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the robbers		round the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	the robbers not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drink	past	the robbers not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	jump about	past	the old female robber			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	fire		for Gerda; dreadful property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	fire not said here	robber		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/41/