Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 31
Suddenly little Gerda stepped through the great portal into the palace.
Who acts: little Gerda · What happens: step · To what, where: great portal
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gerda | amod |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 portal | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portal | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portal | amod |
| 8 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | little Gerda | the great portal | into the palace | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination |
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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