Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 86
And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large wadded gloves towards the robber maiden, and said, “Farewell!” and the Reindeer flew on over bush and bramble through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast as he could go.
Who acts: Gerda, Reindeer · What happens: stretch out, wad, say, fly, go · To what, where: hands, bush · 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 (Gerda, Reindeer), 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 stretched | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gloves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gloves | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gloves | amod |
| 10 | wadded | wad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gloves | amod |
| 11 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obl |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 maiden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | compound |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Farewell | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Farewell | punct |
| 21 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 18 said | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Farewell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Farewell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Reindeer | det |
| 26 | Reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 bush | case |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 bush | case |
| 30 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bramble | cc |
| 32 | bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bush | conj |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 wood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wood | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wood | amod |
| 36 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 moor | punct |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 moor | case |
| 39 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 heath | cc |
| 41 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 moor | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fast | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 fast | advmod |
| 44 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 flew | advmod |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 go | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 go | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 go | aux |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 fast | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Gerda | Gerda's hands | with the large wadded gloves; towards the robber maiden | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with glove=Instrument | |||
| 2 | wad | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | fly | past | the Reindeer | bush and bramble | through the great wood; fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location | |||
| 5 | go | could | reindeer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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