Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 140
At last she could run no longer, so she sat down to rest on a great stone, and when she looked round she saw that the summer was over, and autumn very far advanced.
Who acts: Gerda, summer · What happens: run, sit down, rest, look round, see, be · To what, where: last, great stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gerda, summer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 run | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | parataxis |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rest | mark |
| 14 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sat | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stone | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stone | amod |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 looked | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 saw | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 over | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 summer | det |
| 29 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 over | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 over | cop |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 saw | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 autumn | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 autumn | cc |
| 34 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | parataxis |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 far | advmod |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 advanced | advmod |
| 37 | advanced | advanced | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 autumn | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | could | Gerda | last | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | Gerda | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | a great stone | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location | ||||
| 4 | look round | past | Gerda | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Gerda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the summer | over property | 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: «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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