Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 70

Kay and Gerda took each other's hand: it was lovely spring weather, with abundance of flowers and of verdure.

Who acts: Kay, town · What happens: take, be · To what, where: hand, lovely spring weather

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 (Kay, town), 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	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Gerda	cc
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kay	conj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 other	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 weather	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weather	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 weather	cop
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weather	amod
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weather	compound
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 abundance	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 abundance	case
17	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weather	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 abundance	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 verdure	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 verdure	case
22	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flowers	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Kay and Gerda	each other's hand					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	is a	past	town	lovely spring weather and abundance of flowers and verdure					tree rules

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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