Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 138
The door sprang open, and little Gerda ran out with bare feet into the wide world.
Who acts: door, little Gerda · What happens: spring, run out · To what, where: wide world
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 (door, little Gerda), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sprang | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Gerda | amod |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the door | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | little Gerda | into the wide world result; with bare feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result |
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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