Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 16
Then she took off her red shoes, which she liked better than anything else, and threw them both into the river, but they fell near the bank, and the little waves carried them back to the land, just as if the river would not take from her what she loved best, because they could not give her back little Kay.
Who acts: Gerda, shoes, little waves, river, waves · What happens: take off, like, throw, fall, carry back, not take · To what, where: red shoes, shoes, river, bank, land, best
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, shoes, little waves, river), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoes | amod |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 liked | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 liked | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 liked | nsubj |
| 11 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 liked | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 anything | case |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 better | obl |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 anything | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 threw | obj |
| 20 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 threw | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 bank | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bank | det |
| 30 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 carried | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 carried | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 waves | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 waves | amod |
| 35 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 carried | nsubj |
| 36 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 carried | obj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 carried | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 land | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 land | det |
| 41 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carried | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 take | punct |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 50 take | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 take | mark |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 take | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 river | det |
| 47 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 take | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 take | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 take | advmod |
| 50 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 what | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 what | nmod:poss |
| 53 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 take | obl |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 loved | nsubj |
| 55 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 what | acl:relcl |
| 56 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 55 loved | obj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 give | punct |
| 58 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 62 give | mark |
| 59 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 give | nsubj |
| 60 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 give | aux |
| 61 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 give | advmod |
| 62 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 take | conj |
| 63 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 give | iobj |
| 64 | back | back | ADP | _ | 62 give | compound:prt |
| 65 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 Kay | amod |
| 66 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 give | iobj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Gerda | Gerda's red shoes | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | like | past | Gerda | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Gerda not said here | shoes = shoe | into the river result; both property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result | |||
| 4 | fall | past | shoes = shoe | the bank | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near bank=Location | ||||
| 5 | carry back | past | the little waves | shoes = shoe | the land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to land=Destination | |||
| 6 | not take a condition, not said to happen | would | the river | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from what=Initial_Location | |||||
| 7 | love | past | Gerda | best | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | not give back | could | waves = wave | little Kay | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kay=Theme |
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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