Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 26

Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay, thought Gerda, and then she became more cheerful, and raised her head, and looked at the beautiful green banks; and so the boat sailed on for hours.

Who acts: river, Gerda, boat · What happens: carry, think, become, raise, look, sail on · To what, where: me, little Kay, Gerda, head

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 (river, 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 carry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 carry	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Kay	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Kay	amod
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	advcl
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 became	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	parataxis
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 cheerful	advmod
19	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 raised	cc
22	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 became	parataxis
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raised	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 raised	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	32 banks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 banks	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 banks	amod
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 banks	amod
32	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 sailed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sailed	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 sailed	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boat	det
37	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sailed	nsubj
38	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	parataxis
39	on	on	ADP	_	38 sailed	compound:prt
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 hours	case
41	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sailed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	future	the river	me	little Kay		perhaps property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kay=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	the river not said here	Gerda				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gerda=Theme
3	become	past	Gerda			then	cheerful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	raise	past		Gerda's head				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	look	past					at the beautiful green banks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bank=Theme
6	sail on	past	the boat			hour		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: 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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