Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 1

Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her.

Who acts: Gerda, great crow · What happens: oblige, rest, sit, see, come, hop · To what, where: Gerda, snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, great crow), 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	3 obliged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rest	mark
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 rest	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 place	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 place	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 place	advmod
10	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obliged	parataxis
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 sat	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 place	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crow	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crow	amod
21	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	ccomp
23	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 come	advcl
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 snow	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 snow	det
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hopping	obl
27	toward	toward	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hopping	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		Gerda				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	rest	to-infinitive				again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	Gerda					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Gerda					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	present	a great crow					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hop	gerund	a great crow not said here		the snow		toward crow	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across snow=Trajectory

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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