Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 5
They thrust at the horrid snow-flakes with their spears, so that they flew into a thousand pieces; and little Gerda walked on bravely and in security.
Who acts: lances, little Gerda · What happens: fly, walk on · To what, where: thousand pieces
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, little 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thrust | nsubj |
| 2 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 flakes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flakes | det |
| 5 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flakes | amod |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flakes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snow | punct |
| 8 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thrust | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spears | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flakes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 flew | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrust | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 pieces | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thousand | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pieces | nummod |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flew | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Gerda | amod |
| 24 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 27 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 security | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 security | case |
| 30 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bravely | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | lances = lance | into thousand pieces result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | walk on | past | little Gerda | bravely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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