Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 1

But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence?

Who acts: Kay · What happens: fare, absent · To what, where: little Gerda

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 fared	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fared	advmod
3	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Gerda	amod
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fared	obj
6	during	during	ADP	_	9 absence	case
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 absence	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Kay	case
9	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fare	participle		little Gerda			during Kay's absence		tree rules
2	absent		Kay						nom absence «state 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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