Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 32

The gate was formed of cutting winds; but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were laid as though they slept; and the little maiden entered the vast, empty, cold halls.

Who acts: Gerda, winds, little maiden · What happens: form, repeat, lay, sleep, enter, pray · To what, where: gate, evening prayer, winds, vast empty cold halls

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 (Gerda, winds, little 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	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 formed	aux:pass
4	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 winds	case
6	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 winds	compound
7	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 formed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 repeated	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 repeated	cc
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	nsubj
11	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 formed	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 prayer	nmod:poss
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prayer	compound
14	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laid	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winds	det
18	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laid	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	aux:pass
20	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 repeated	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 slept	mark
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 slept	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slept	nsubj
24	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 entered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 entered	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maiden	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 maiden	amod
29	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 entered	nsubj
30	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 repeated	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 halls	det
32	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 halls	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 vast	punct
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 halls	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 empty	punct
36	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 halls	amod
37	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 entered	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	form	past · passive		the gate	of cutting winds	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	repeat	past	Gerda	Gerda's evening prayer		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Eventuality
3	lay	past · passive		the winds		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	sleep	past	winds = wind			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	enter	past	the little maiden	the vast empty cold halls		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
6	pray		Gerda			nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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