Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 29

The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her; neither was it open, nor low enough that she could wade through it; and across it she must go if she would find her child!

Who acts: neither, woman · What happens: not freeze, bear, be, wade, go, find · To what, where: lake, woman, child

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bear	mark
8	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bear	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 open	punct
11	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	14 open	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 open	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 open	nsubj
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frozen	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 low	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 low	cc
17	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 open	conj
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 low	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wade	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wade	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wade	aux
22	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 low	advcl
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wade	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	parataxis
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 child	nmod:poss
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not freeze	past · passive		the lake		sufficiently property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	bear	to-infinitive		woman			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	is	past	neither			open property	tree rules
4	be		neither not said here			enough property	tree rules
5	wade	could	woman		lake		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory
6	go	must	woman		lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across it=Initial_Location
7	find a condition, not said to happen	would	woman	woman's child			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

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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