Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 48

They took each other by the hand, and wandered forth out of the large hall; they talked of their old grandmother, and of the roses upon the roof; and wherever they went, the winds ceased raging, and the sun burst forth.

Who acts: masses, winds, sun · What happens: take, wander, talk, go, cease, rage · To what, where: each, large hall

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 (masses, winds, sun), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 took	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 wandered	advmod
12	out	out	ADP	_	16 hall	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hall	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hall	amod
16	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wandered	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 talked	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talked	nsubj
19	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 grandmother	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandmother	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grandmother	amod
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 roses	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 roses	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 roses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roses	det
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 talked	obl
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roses	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
34	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	36 went	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ceased	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 winds	det
39	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ceased	nsubj
40	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 went	conj
41	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 ceased	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 burst	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 burst	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun	det
45	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 burst	nsubj
46	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
47	forth	forth	ADV	_	46 burst	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	masses = mass	each		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	wander	past	masses = mass not said here		the large hall	forth property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hall=Trajectory
3	talk	past	masses = mass			of masses's old grandmother; of the roses upon the roof	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	masses = mass			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cease	past	the winds				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	rage	gerund	the winds not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	burst	past	the sun			forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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