Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 33

And then the old woman walked in the water, seized the boat with her crutch, drew it to land, and lifted Gerda out.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: walk, seize, draw, land, lift out · To what, where: water, boat, Gerda

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 (old woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 walked	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
11	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seized	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 crutch	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 crutch	nmod:poss
16	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seized	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drew	punct
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seized	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 land	mark
21	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 drew	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lifted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lifted	cc
24	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	conj
25	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 lifted	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	24 lifted	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the old woman		the water	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	seize	past	the old woman not said here	the boat			with woman's crutch	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	draw	past	the old woman not said here	boat				tree rules
4	land	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lift out	past	the old woman not said here	Gerda				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=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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