Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 36
Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his bosom, they penetrated to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang the hymn:
Who acts: little Gerda, tears, gate, Gerda · What happens: shed, burn, fall, penetrate, thaw, consume · To what, where: tears, bosom, lumps, splinters, hymn
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, tears, gate, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 shed | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gerda | amod |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shed | nsubj |
| 4 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shed | xcomp |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burning | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bosom | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 penetrated | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 penetrated | nsubj |
| 16 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 penetrated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thawed | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thawed | nsubj |
| 22 | thawed | thaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lumps | det |
| 24 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thawed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lumps | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 consumed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 consumed | cc |
| 29 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 splinters | det |
| 31 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 consumed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 glass | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 glass | det |
| 34 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 glass | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 looking | punct |
| 36 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 splinters | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 looked | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 looked | nsubj |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 looked | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sang | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sang | cc |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 sang | nsubj |
| 45 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 hymn | det |
| 47 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sang | obj |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | little Gerda | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | little Gerda not said here | tears | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | tears = tear | gate's bosom | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bosom=Location | ||||
| 4 | penetrate | past | tears = tear | to gate's heart | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | thaw | past | tears = tear | the lumps of ice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lump=Result | ||||
| 6 | consume | past | little Gerda not said here | the splinters of the looking glass | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Asset | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | look | past | gate | at Gerda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 9 | sing speech: express | past | Gerda | the hymn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | ||||
| 10 | bosom | gate | nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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