Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 49
And when they reached the bush with the red berries, they found the Reindeer waiting for them.
Who acts: winds, Reindeer · What happens: reach, find, wait · To what, where: bush, Reindeer
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 (winds, Reindeer), 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 | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 berries | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 berries | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berries | amod |
| 10 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Reindeer | det |
| 15 | Reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Reindeer | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waiting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | winds = wind | the bush | with the red berries | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | winds = wind | the Reindeer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the Reindeer not said here | for winds = wind | vn exist-47.1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/15/49/