Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 21

Then little Gerda was very much frightened, and began to cry, but no one heard her except the sparrows, and they could not carry her to land, but they flew along by the shore, and sang, as if to comfort her, "Here we are!

Who acts: one, sparrows, we · What happens: frighten, begin, cry, hear, not carry, fly · To what, where: little Gerda, Gerda, land · 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 (one, sparrows, we), 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	2 little	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gerda	amod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	aux:pass
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cry	mark
12	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	except	except	ADP	_	21 sparrows	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sparrows	det
21	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heard	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carry	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carry	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carry	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 carry	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 carry	advmod
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightened	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 carry	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 land	case
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 flew	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 flew	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flew	nsubj
34	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	parataxis
35	along	along	ADV	_	34 flew	advmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 shore	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shore	det
38	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flew	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sang	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sang	cc
41	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 flew	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 comfort	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 comfort	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 comfort	mark
45	to	to	PART	_	46 comfort	mark
46	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 sang	ccomp
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 comfort	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Here	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 Here	punct
50	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 comfort	advmod
51	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 are	nsubj
52	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 comfort	parataxis
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		little Gerda			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	no one	Gerda		except the sparrows	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	not carry	could	sparrows = sparrow	Gerda	land		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to land=Destination
6	fly	past	sparrows = sparrow			by the shore; along property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location
7	sing speech: express	past	sparrows = sparrow not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	comfort a condition, not said to happen	to-infinitive		Gerda	here		tree rules
9	be in a quote	present	we				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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