Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 49
Gerda jumped for joy, and played till the sun went down behind the tall cherry-trees; then she slept in an elegant bed with red silk pillows, embroidered with colored violets; and then she dreamed as pleasantly as a queen on her wedding day.
Who acts: Gerda, sun · What happens: jump, play, go down, sleep, embroider, color · To what, where: tall cherry trees, elegant bed, red silk pillows
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, sun), 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 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 played | cc |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 played | ccomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trees | det |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trees | amod |
| 16 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 cherry | punct |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 slept | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 slept | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slept | nsubj |
| 22 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bed | det |
| 25 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bed | amod |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slept | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 pillows | case |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pillows | amod |
| 29 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pillows | compound |
| 30 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 slept | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 embroidered | punct |
| 32 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 pillows | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 violets | case |
| 34 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 violets | amod |
| 35 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 embroidered | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 dreamed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dreamed | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 dreamed | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dreamed | nsubj |
| 40 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 pleasantly | advmod |
| 42 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 40 dreamed | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 queen | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 queen | det |
| 45 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dreamed | obl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 day | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 day | nmod:poss |
| 48 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 day | compound |
| 49 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 queen | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Gerda | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Gerda not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | the sun | the tall cherry trees | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind tree=Location | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | Gerda | a elegant bed | then | with red silk pillows | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||
| 5 | embroider | participle | red silk pillows not said here | with colored violets | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with violet=Theme | ||||
| 6 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | dream | past | Gerda | then | as a queen on Gerda's wedding day; pleasantly property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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