Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 23

The boat floated with the stream; little Gerda sat quite still with only her stockings on her feet; the red shoes floated after her, but she could not reach them because the boat kept so much in advance.

Who acts: boat, red shoes, Gerda · What happens: float, sit, not reach, keep · To what, where: boat, shoes, much, advance

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 (boat, red shoes, 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 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
3	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boat	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floated	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Gerda	amod
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 still	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 stockings	case
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 stockings	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stockings	nmod:poss
16	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sat	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stockings	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 floated	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shoes	det
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shoes	amod
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 floated	nsubj
24	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 floated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reach	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 reach	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reach	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 reach	advmod
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 floated	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reach	obj
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 kept	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boat	det
36	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kept	nsubj
37	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	advcl
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 kept	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 advance	case
41	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 much	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	participle		the boat not said here			with the stream	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the boat			still	with Gerda's stockings on Gerda's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	float	past	the red shoes			after Gerda		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not reach	could	Gerda	shoes = shoe				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	keep	past	the boat	much	advance			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme in advance=Location

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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