Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 4

All had helms on their heads, and lances and shields in their hands; they increased in numbers; and when Gerda had finished the Lord's Prayer, she was surrounded by a whole legion.

Who acts: lances, whole legion · What happens: have, increase, finish, surround · To what, where: helms, heads, numbers, Gerda

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 (lances, whole legion), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	helms	helm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 heads	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 increased	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 increased	cc
9	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 increased	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shields	cc
11	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lances	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lances	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 increased	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 increased	nsubj
17	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 numbers	case
19	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 increased	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 finished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 finished	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 finished	advmod
23	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 finished	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 finished	aux
25	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Lord	det
27	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Prayer	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Lord	case
29	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 finished	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 surrounded	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 surrounded	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 surrounded	aux:pass
33	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 finished	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 legion	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 legion	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 legion	amod
37	legion	legion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 surrounded	obl:agent
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past		helms	helms's heads	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Patient
2	increase	past	lances in lances's hands and shields		numbers	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	finish	past · perfect · passive		Gerda		tree rules
4	surround	past · passive	a whole legion	Gerda		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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