Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 12
It was quite early when she kissed her old grandmother, who was still asleep; then she put on her red shoes, and went quite alone out of the town gates toward the river. "
Who acts: river, Gerda, old grandmother · What happens: be, kiss, put, go · To what, where: old grandmother, red shoes, town gates
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 (river, Gerda, old grandmother), 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 | 4 early | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 early | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 kissed | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 kissed | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | nsubj |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandmother | amod |
| 10 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asleep | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asleep | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asleep | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 asleep | advmod |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 put | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kissed | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shoes | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shoes | amod |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kissed | conj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 alone | advmod |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 gates | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gates | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gates | det |
| 32 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gates | compound |
| 33 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 34 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 36 river | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 river | det |
| 36 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissed | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | river | early property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Gerda | Gerda's old grandmother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Gerda's old grandmother | still | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put | past | Gerda | Gerda's red shoes | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | Gerda not said here | the town gates | toward the river; alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out gate=Initial_Location toward river=Destination |
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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