Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 75

The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cushion to sit on.

Who acts: robber maiden, maiden · What happens: lift up, take, bind, give, sit on · To what, where: little Gerda, precaution, maiden, back, small cushion, Gerda

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 (robber maiden, maiden), 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 maiden	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maiden	compound
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Gerda	amod
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 precaution	det
12	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bind	mark
14	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bind	obj
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bind	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Reindeer	det
19	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 back	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Reindeer	case
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bind	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 gave	advmod
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cushion	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cushion	amod
29	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sit	mark
31	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gave	advcl
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 sit	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	the robber maiden	little Gerda				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
2	take	past	the robber maiden not said here	the precaution				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme
3	bind	to-infinitive	the robber maiden not said here	maiden		the Reindeer's back	fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	give	past	maiden	a small cushion	Gerda			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cushion=Theme
5	sit on	to-infinitive	maiden not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «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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