Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 29

Gerda called out to them, for she thought they were alive, but of course they did not answer; and as the boat drifted nearer to the shore, she saw what they really were.

Who acts: Gerda, soldiers, boat · What happens: call out, think, be, not answer, drift, see · To what, where: Gerda, soldiers, shore · 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 (Gerda, soldiers, 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj:pass
2	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 alive	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alive	cop
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 answer	cc
15	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	20 answer	advmod
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 of	fixed
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answer	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 answer	advmod
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 alive	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 drifted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drifted	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 drifted	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boat	det
25	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drifted	nsubj
26	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
27	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 drifted	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 shore	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shore	det
30	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drifted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saw	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drifted	conj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 saw	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 were	nsubj
36	really	really	ADV	_	37 were	advmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		Gerda	soldiers = soldier			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient
2	think speech: other	past	Gerda					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	soldiers = soldier				alive property	tree rules
4	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	soldiers = soldier					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drift	past	the boat			the shore	near property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
6	see	past	Gerda					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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