Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 18

Then she crept into a boat that lay among the reeds, and threw the shoes again from the farther end of the boat into the water, but it was not fastened.

Who acts: Gerda, boat · What happens: creep, lie, throw, not fasten · To what, where: boat, reeds, shoes, farther end, water

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, boat), 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 crept	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boat	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boat	acl:relcl
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 reeds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reeds	det
11	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoes	det
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 threw	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	14 threw	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
20	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 end	amod
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 boat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boat	det
24	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fastened	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 fastened	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fastened	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fastened	aux:pass
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fastened	advmod
33	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crept	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	Gerda		a boat	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
2	lie	past	a boat		the reeds			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among reed=Location
3	throw	past	Gerda not said here	the shoes		from the farther end of the boat; again	into the water	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme from end=Initial_Location into water=Destination
4	not fasten	past · passive		water				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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