Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 38
Then she took Gerda by the hand and led her into the little house, and the old woman closed the door.
Who acts: Gerda, old woman · What happens: take, lead, close · To what, where: Gerda, little house, door
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 closed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 closed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 closed | nsubj |
| 20 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 closed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gerda | Gerda | then | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gerda=Destination | ||
| 2 | lead | past | Gerda not said here | Gerda | the little house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 3 | close | past | the old woman | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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