Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 44
And he held fast by Gerda, who laughed and wept for joy.
Who acts: Hereupon, Gerda · What happens: hold, laugh, weep
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 (Hereupon, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 held | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Gerda | case |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Gerda | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wept | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Hereupon | by Gerda; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gerda=Location | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Gerda | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | Gerda not said here | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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