Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 57

It was the little robber maiden, who, tired of being at home, had determined to make a journey to the north; and afterwards in another direction, if that did not please her.

Who acts: wood, direction · What happens: be, determine, make, not please · To what, where: journey, Gerda

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 (wood, direction), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maiden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maiden	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robber	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robber	amod
5	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	nsubj
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tired	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 maiden	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 home	case
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 home	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determined	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	aux
17	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 maiden	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 determined	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 journey	det
21	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 north	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 north	det
24	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 direction	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 direction	cc
27	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	30 direction	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 direction	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 direction	det
30	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 direction	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 please	mark
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 please	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 please	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 please	advmod
36	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 direction	acl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 please	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 maiden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood		maiden property	tree rules
2	is	gerund			of home	tree rules
3	determine	past · perfect	wood not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	wood not said here	a journey	to the north	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product
5	not please a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	another direction	Gerda		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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