Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 51
They then carried Kay and Gerda--first to the Finland woman, where they warmed themselves in the warm room, and learned what they were to do on their journey home; and they went to the Lapland woman, who made some new clothes for them and repaired their sledges.
Who acts: winds, Lapland woman · What happens: carry, warm, learn, do, go, make · To what, where: Kay, Finland woman, winds, warm room, journey, new clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Lapland woman), 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 | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 carried | advmod |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Gerda | cc |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kay | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 woman | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | compound |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warmed | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 warmed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warmed | nsubj |
| 16 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 woman | conj |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 warmed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warmed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 learned | cc |
| 24 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 learned | ccomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 journey | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 journey | nmod:poss |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obl |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 do | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 woman | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 woman | det |
| 40 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 woman | compound |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 made | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 made | nsubj |
| 44 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 woman | acl:relcl |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 clothes | det |
| 46 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 clothes | amod |
| 47 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 44 made | obj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 made | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 repaired | cc |
| 51 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 went | conj |
| 52 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 sledges | nmod:poss |
| 53 | sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 repaired | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | winds = wind | Kay and Gerda | the Finland woman | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kay=Theme to woman=Destination | ||
| 2 | warm | past | winds = wind | winds = wind | the warm room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 3 | learn | past | winds = wind not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past | winds = wind | winds's journey | home property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | go | past | winds = wind | to the Lapland woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | make | past | the Lapland woman | some new clothes | for winds = wind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent clothes=Product for they=Asset | |||
| 7 | repair | past | winds = wind not said here | winds's sledges | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient | ||||
| 8 | journey | winds = wind | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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