Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 80

In the middle of the floor stood the tame crow, turning her head from side to side, and gazing at Gerda, who curtseyed as her grandmother had taught her to do.

Who acts: Gerda, grandmother · What happens: stand, turn, gaze, curtsey, teach, do · To what, where: tame crow, middle, head, side, grandmother, Gerda

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, grandmother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crow	det
9	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crow	amod
10	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turning	punct
12	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stood	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turning	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 side	case
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turning	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 side	case
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turning	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gazing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gazing	cc
21	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stood	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 Gerda	case
23	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gazing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 curtseyed	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 curtseyed	nsubj
26	curtseyed	curtsey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Gerda	acl:relcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 taught	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 grandmother	nmod:poss
29	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taught	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taught	aux
31	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 curtseyed	ccomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taught	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 taught	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the tame crow		the middle of the floor		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crow=Theme in middle=Destination
2	turn	gerund		crow's head		side	to side	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Source to side=Trajectory
3	gaze	gerund					at Gerda	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gerda=Theme
4	curtsey	past	Gerda					tree rules
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Gerda's grandmother	Gerda			tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	Gerda's grandmother not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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